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In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the welfare of the human race as a whole. Society's long history... Read Full Overview

Let us begin, inoffensively, with sheep. The sheep is a beast with which we are all familiar, being much used in religious imagery; the common stock of painters; a staple article of diet; one of our main sources of clothing; and an everyday symbol of bashfulness and stupidity.In... Read Full Overview

The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture by Charlotte Perkins Gilmanm

The Man-Made World (1911) is a sociological study by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Inspired by her work as a social reformer and advocate for women's suffrage, Gilman sought to write a work of nonfiction that explained the effects of patriarchy... Read Full Overview

Published in 1911, this book is a critique of our “androcentric culture.” Pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes the issues with a society where men and maleness is considered to be the normality. Our society is too focused on what’s ‘womanly’ and what’s ‘manly’... Read Full Overview

The Man-Made World (1911) is a sociological study by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Inspired by her work as a social reformer and advocate for women's suffrage, Gilman sought to write a work of nonfiction that explained the effects of patriarchy... Read Full Overview

Our Androcentric Culture, or The Man Made World, by Charlotte Gilman is an important liberal feminist text. The text purports that rather than exploring what is appropriate masculine or feminine behaviour, we should investigate what it is to be human.Any profits generated from... Read Full Overview

Let us begin, inoffensively, with sheep. The sheep is a beast with which we are all familiar, being much used in religious imagery; the common stock of painters; a staple article of diet; one of our main sources of clothing; and an everyday symbol of bashfulness and stupidity... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (n?e Perkins; July 3, 1860 - August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She was a utopian feminist and served as a... Read Full Overview

"Our Androcentric Culture" from Charlotte Perkins Gilman. American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories and poetry (1860-1935).

A liberal feminist text. Rather than considering what is appropriate masculine or feminine behaviour, we should investigate what it is to be human.