· Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, The Home: Its Work and Influence is an extremely interesting look into the way women were viewed in the late ’s. One would think from reading the first few chapters that the book was about the wondrous attributes a woman had to offer within a home. The Home: Its Work and Influence () 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 role of the home as a human institution, as well as to address the problems and inequities of home life--especially for women. 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 .
Hos Adlibris hittar du miljontals böcker och produkter inom gilman charlotte perkins + historia arkeologi Vi har ett brett sortiment av böcker, garn, leksaker, pyssel, sällskapsspel, dekoration och mycket mer för en inspirerande vardag. Alltid bra priser, fri frakt från kr och snabb leverans. | Adlibris. The home in its essential nature is pure good, and in its due development is progressively good; but it must change with society's advance; and the kind of home that was wholly beneficial in one century may be largely evil in another. We must forcibly bear in mind, in any honest study of a long-accustomed environment, that our own comfort, or. Gilman describes this predicament in great depth in works such as: Women and Economics (), Concerning Children (), and The Home: Its Work and Influence (). Gilman was a fierce advocate of getting housewives economic compensation as is evident by a quote of hers from the Forerunner, "until 'mothers' earn their livings, 'women' will.
We shall have homes of rest and peace for all, with no need for half of us to find them places of ceaseless work and care. Home and its beauty, home and its comfort, home and its refreshment to tired nerves, its inspiration to worn hearts, this is in no danger of loss or change; but the home which is so far from beautiful, so wearing to the nerves and dulling to the heart, the home life that means care and labour and disappointment, the quiet, unnoticed whirlpool that sucks down youth and. The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) Charlotte Perkins Gilman. out of 5 stars. Paperback. $ $ The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Home: Its Work and Influence () 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 role of the home as a human institution, as well as to address the problems and inequities of home life—especially for women.
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