Women and economics
Subtitle: a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Series: Harper torchbooks.  The University library, TB3073P; American perspectives.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Women -- Social and moral questions
Description: "Charlotte Gilman became the leading intellectual in the women's movement in the United States during the first two decades of the twentieth century. 'The Nation' went so far as to pronounce Women and Economics 'the most significant utterance on the subject of women since Mill's Subjection of Woman'.... No one in her time focussed the arguments so sharply and stated them so lucidly and cogently as she did. Moreover, at a time when most feminists were talking about the ideal of equal rights as the primary justification for women's claims, Mrs. Gilman raised the more fundamental question of the nature and potentialities of the sexes. She challenged the Victorian assumption that men and women were so different that their social activites ought not and could not overlap....She anticipated modern commentators like Margaret Mead, Erich Fromm, and Erik Erikson who have also seen a link between sex and character....A new edition of Women and Economics is justified not only by the important place the book occupied in its own time and in the intellectual and social history of the United States, but also for what it says in lucid and challenging fashion about and to women today." -- Carl N. Degler.