Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a pioneering
sociologist, feminist pragmatist, author, and lecturer. A skilled
and perceptive writer, she explained sociological concepts and
principles clearly and concisely to popular audiences. This volume
presents a focused and provocative set of Gilman's penetrating
analyses of marriage, motherhood, and family relationships.
Generally unavailable, except in archives and special libraries,
the lion's share of the analyses are drawn directly from Gilman's
quintessentially unique self-published journal, The Forerunner.
Transcending her era, Gilman speaks with wit, insight, and
candor to twenty-first century readers about many controversial
aspects of family and family life. She believes deeply that women's
values--regeneration, cooperation, and compassion--make for better
societies. Men's values, she concludes, are destructive,
competitive, and often violent. Families produce double standards
and inequalities between husbands and wives, resulting in inferior
mothers and, as a direct consequence, in substandard children. To
improve society, Gilman argues, we need healthy, happy children.
This requires well-trained, competent mothers, widespread social
parenting, and enlightened, non-patriarchal marriages.
Largely self-taught, Gilman supported herself through writing
and lecturing. She was at one time a settlement house leader and an
active member of the American Sociological Society. Her wide
sociological circle included lasting friendships with Jane Addams,
Edward A. Ross, and Lester F. Ward.
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