The Crux: A lecturer for social reform (AURA PRESS) - Softcover

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517184193 ISBN 13: 9781517184193

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The Crux is a novel that demands the social changes must take place. It also demands that women's must take up their duty morally to regenerate the nation. For example, a woman must stop competing with one another in marriage in a game that pits woman against woman for the honor of marry, not the best man, but whatever man is available. Gilman basically wants the dynamic needs to be turned on its head-man should be competing for woman-and woman should be able to choose from a field of men, in order to secure the best possible mate in order to make a strong racially superior American babies. The Crux admonishes male doctors for maintaining a secrecy for which protects men from having sexual fitness made public. Women need to be educated about the realities sexually transmitted diseases, so they can choose a healthy clean mate and fulfill their nation building destiny.

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"With reproductive technologies at the center of feminist, medical, and national debate, "The Crux" offers a fascinating historical perspective on the relationship of reproduction and nationalism. Dana Seitler's introduction offers a useful context in which to read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's quirky, biology-based feminism, her depiction of a women's community in the west, and, generally, the relationship between fiction-writing and the fashioning of gender roles that fueled Gilman's particular brand of activism."--Priscilla Wald, author of "Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form"

About the Author:

harlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. t the age of five, Gilman taught herself to read because her mother was ill. Her mother was not affectionate with her children. To keep them from getting hurt as she had been, she forbade her children to make strong friendships or read fiction. In her autobiography, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gilman wrote that her mother showed affection only when she thought her young daughter was asleep. Although she lived a childhood of isolated, impoverished loneliness, she unknowingly prepared herself for the life that lay ahead by frequently visiting the public library and studying ancient civilizations on her own. Additionally, her father's love for literature influenced her, and years later he contacted her with a list of books he felt would be worthwhile for her to read. Much of Gilman's youth was spent in Providence, Rhode Island. What friends she had were mainly male, and she was unashamed, for her time, to call herself a "tomboy." She attended seven different public schools, and was a correspondent student of the Society to Encourage Studies at Home but studied only until she was fifteen. Her natural intelligence and breadth of knowledge always impressed her teachers, who were nonetheless disappointed in her because she was a poor student. Her favorite subject was "natural philosophy," especially what later would become known as physics. In 1878, the eighteen-year-old enrolled in classes at the Rhode Island School of Design with the monetary help of her absent father, and subsequently supported herself as an artist of trade cards. She was a tutor, and encouraged others to expand their artistic creativity. She was also a painter. In 1884, she married the artist Charles Walter Stetson after initially declining his proposal because a gut feeling told her it was not the right thing for her. Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1517184193
• ISBN 13: 9781517184193
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 174