The Home: Its Work and Influence: 1 (Classics in Gender Studies) - Softcover

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins; Michael Kimmel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759103062 ISBN 13: 9780759103061

Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 generation of students and feminist scholars.

About this title

Product Description:

The Home Reprint of 1903 edition of Gilman's classic indictment of domestic life, offering a program of domestic reform that inspired women at the beginning of what became a century-long struggle. Full description

Review:

What makes this book different is its temporal context. . . . I became fascinated by the description of a woman's lifeworld within a 'typical' middle-class, American home of only 100 years ago. . . . The Home: Its Work and Influence can be considered a classic in gender studies.--Valerie Wright-St. Clair, Auckland University of technology "Journal Of Occupational Studies, Nov. 2003, Vol. 10, No. 3 "

About this edition

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0759103062
• ISBN 13: 9780759103061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368