Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))
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A humanistic social Darwinian and communitarian, Charlotte Perkins Gilman believed that modern society needed to revise its foundations completely before full self-realization and freedom could come for both women and men. Gilman condemned capitalist society for its uncaring creation of a hopeless lower class, kept in ignorance by social and theological “rules.” (Unfortunately, much of Gilman’s work reflects a degree of racism and anti-Semitism.)
Gilman’s most influential work, Women and Economics: The Economic Relation Between Men and Women...
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