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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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American writer and feminist theorist (1860 to 1935); author of Women and Economics.

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8 dated positions, c. 1898, in their own words. Our reading of what Charlotte Perkins Gilman has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingTreating motherhood as a trade would be repugnant and socially harmful

    Their wordsIt is revolting so to consider them; and, if we dare face our own thoughts, and force them to their logical conclusion, we shall see that nothing could be more repugnant to human feeling, or more socially and individually injurious, than to make motherhood a trade.

    ↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  3. Our readingHousewives are kept busy by house service, not by caring for children

    Their wordsIt is not motherhood that keeps the housewife on her feet from dawn till dark; it is house service, not child service.

    ↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  5. Our readingMarrying for money naturally follows from the economic dependence of women

    Their wordsThe mercenary marriage is a perfectly natural consequence of the economic dependence of women.

    ↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  7. Our readingWomen's economic dependence causes unhealthy motherhood and a falling birth-rate

    Their wordsSo far from the economic dependence of women working in the interests of motherhood, it is the steadily acting cause of a pathological maternity and a decreasing birth-rate.

    ↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  9. Our readingWomen should be trained for motherhood rather than girls for catching a husband

    Their wordsMotherhood is the work of grown women, not of half-children; and, when we honestly care as much for motherhood as we pretend, we shall train the woman for her duty, not the girl for her guileless manœuvres to secure a husband.

    ↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  11. Our readingIf babies would be better off partly in others' care, mothers have a duty to provide it

    Their wordsIf it can be shown that our babies would be better off if part of their time was passed in other care than their mothers’, then such other care would be right; and it would be the duty of motherhood to provide it.

    ↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  13. Our readingThe private home and the dependent mother are no longer sufficient for training children

    Their wordsIt is in the training of children for this stage of human life that the private home has ceased to be sufficient, or the isolated, primitive, dependent woman capable.

    ↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  15. Our readingMarriage is flawed when women enter it for food and clothes and men for cooks and housekeepers

    Their wordsIt is a glaring proof of the insufficient and irritating character of our existing form of marriage that women must be forced to it by the need of food and clothes, and men by the need of cooks and housekeepers.

    ↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book