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Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, published in 1898 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), is considered a classic among American women's...
Editor:Rebecca ParksFrom:American Eras: Primary Sources
(Vol. 1: Development of the Industrial United States, 1878-1899. )
20134 pages
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A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution Nonfiction work By: Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman) Date: 1898 Source: Stetson (Gilman), Charlotte Perkins. Women and...
200319 pages
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman1909 "Three Thanksgivings," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was first published in Gilman's magazine, Forerunner, in 1909. The story and many of the other works published in the magazine have...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 “The Yellow Wallpaper,” first published in 1892 in the New England Magazine, is largely considered Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s best work of short fiction. The story is a first-person...
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The Woman's Journal was described by its longtime editor, Lucy Stone (1818–1893), as "a big baby which never grew up, and always had to be fed" (Kerr, p. 167). Born in 1870, the journal did manage to grow up, though not...
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If Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) had never written another word after the publication of "The Yellow Wallpaper," her place in American literary history would still be secure. Originally published in New England...
20066 pages
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Social Darwinism is the theory that individual human beings, social groups, and entire ethnic groups are subject in their societies to the same laws of natural selection that govern the survival and evolution of plants...
20069 pages
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In many ways—political, sociological, economic, and technological—the end of the nineteenth century marked a decisive turning point in American history. Irrevocably shaping the understanding of "modern times," the...
20066 pages
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By tradition, the act of writing is an isolated one. Webster's English Dictionary (1858) defines an author as "One who produces, creates, or brings into being; as God is the author of the universe." Such godlike creation...
20069 pages
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Religion underlay much of nineteenth-century success literature, just as it infused American political discourse and thought. Early-nineteenth-century advice manuals and stories for the young warned of the temptations of...
20132 pages
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A creation from the pen of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), the Gibson Girl came to be viewed as an ideal image of youthful femininity in the early 1890s. Statuesque and athletic, she was a contemporary...
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Biography
American (born United States), b. 1948. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: High school English teacher, 1971–82; Michigan State University, assistant professor of American thought and language, 1986–88;...
20101 page
Biography
American (born United States), b. 1950. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Humanities, Race relations, Popular Culture, Theatre, Essays, Humor/Satire, Animals/Pets, Women's studies and issues. Career: Yale...
20067 pages
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The American novel of business and industry came into its own immediately after the Civil War as a capacious form of cultural documentation. Unlike the western, the captivity narrative, or the sentimental romance, the...
20067 pages
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Herman Melville wrote in Moby-Dick (1851) that "a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard" (p.156), and W. D. Howells noted three generations later that "till journalism became my university, the printing-office...
20064 pages
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The Appeal to Reason was the most important socialist weekly newspaper ever published in the United States. Its rise and fall—circulation peaked at about 760,000 readers in 1912 but declined after that—parallels the rise...
20065 pages
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States witnessed great changes, including a shift in the phenomenon called "fashion," most particularly women's fashion. This shift had social, cultural, and political...
20065 pages
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Imagine you lived in a world in which you could not vote, hold elected office, or own property no matter how old you are. Consider how limited your life would be if you were not encouraged to go to school or pursue a...
200510 pages
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The ethical implications of science and technology found in literaturre are varied and often implicit as well as explicit. A beginning survey may reasonably include the following non-exhaustive set of topics: the content...
201010 pages
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Liberalism has been a word of multiple meanings and valences ever since the late medieval introduction of the word liberal to English from Latin. On the one hand, liberal has indicated an inclination toward freedom,...
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Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, published in 1898 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), is considered a classic among American women's...
A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution Nonfiction work By: Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman) Date: 1898 Source: Stetson (Gilman), Charlotte Perkins. Women and...