What Charlotte Perkins Gilman thinks about taste
American writer and feminist theorist (1860 to 1935); author of Women and Economics.
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1 dated position, c. 1898, in their own words. Our reading of what Charlotte Perkins Gilman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingWomen barred from production create a market for luxury that checks true industry and art
Their wordsAgain, the consuming female, debarred from any free production, unable to estimate the labor involved in the making of what she so lightly destroys, and her consumption limited mainly to those things which minister to physical pleasure, creates a market for sensuous decoration and personal ornament, for all that is luxurious and enervating, and for a false and capricious variety in such supplies, which operates as a most deadly check to true industry and true art.
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