The home: its work and influence
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century. Her central argument, that 'the economic independence and specialization of women is essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement' resonates in this work. Throughout, she maintains that the liberation of women―and of children and of men, for that matter―requires getting women out of the house, both practically and ideologically. AltaMira Press is proud to reprint this provocative work and introduce Charlotte Perkins Gilman to a new g...
Chapters (19)
- THE HOME ITS WORK AND INFLUENCE
- CONTENTS
- I INTRODUCTORY
- II THE EVOLUTION OF THE HOME
- III DOMESTIC MYTHOLOGY
- IV PRESENT CONDITIONS
- V THE HOME AS A WORKSHOP
- VI THE HOME AS A WORKSHOP
- VII HOME-COOKING
- VIII DOMESTIC ART
- IX DOMESTIC ETHICS
- X DOMESTIC ENTERTAINMENT
- XI THE LADY OF THE HOUSE
- XII THE CHILD AT HOME
- XIII THE GIRL AT HOME
- XIV HOME INFLUENCE ON MEN
- XV HOME AND SOCIAL PROGRESS
- XVI LINES OF ADVANCE
- XVII RESULTS
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