Synopses & Reviews
Famous for her short fictionand#8212;most notably and#8220;The Yellow Wallpaperand#8221;and#8212;Charlotte Perkins Gilman also produced a vast body of nonfiction in tandem with her work as a Progressive-era feminist reformer. Rooted in groundbreaking research on Gilmanand#8217;s extensive correspondence, publications, and speeches, this keenly argued intellectual biography reconstructs her controversial output and the heady context in which she produced it.
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Judith Allen provides the first comprehensive assessment of Gilmanand#8217;s complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writerand#8217;s theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentricand#8212;or male-dominatedand#8212;culture. These ideas, Allen shows, informed Gilmanand#8217;s many contributions to the suffrage movement, the fight to abolish regulated prostitution, and efforts to legalize birth control. Restoring a previously overlooked public intellectual to her preeminent place in Progressive-era politics and the history of feminism at home and abroad, Allenand#8217;s landmark study provides the fullest account available of Gilmanand#8217;s consequential life and profoundly influential work.
About the Author
Judith Allen is professor of history at Indiana University.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Sexuality and Subjection in History
1 Desires, Matings, and Couples
2 Longing, Leaving, and Loving
3 Gynaecocracy and Androcracy
4 Sex Slavery, Home Cooking, and Combat
Part Two: “As to Feminism”
5 Woman Suffrage, the Antis, and Masculism
6 Debating Gilmans “Feminism”
7 “The High Priestess of Feminism”
8 Toward a “Human” World
Part Three: Embracing Progressivism
9 Reconfiguring Vice
10 A Progressive Era Public Intellectual
11 The Later Gilman
12 Gilmaniana Today
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography Index