| Women and Economics Revised Edition Contributor(s): Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879758848 ISBN-13: 9780879758844 Publisher: Prometheus Books OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1994 Annotation: Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by the work she does - and thus man becomes her economic environment. As a consequence, her "female" attributes dominate her "human" qualities because they determine her survival. Gilman's thesis challenges both biological and theological arguments about women's innate passivity and defies the virtual exclusion of women in classical sociological theory. If women are to fully engage in domestic and public life, Gilman contends that their emancipation requires both economic participation and adequate child care. Gilman's argument in this classic work resonates today, as women continue their struggle to find a meaningful independent identity and to balance work and family. Here reprinted with a new introduction, Women and Economics belongs on the same shelf as works by Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, and other pioneering feminists. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - General - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.42 |
| LCCN: 94001700 |
| Series: Great Minds |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.35" W x 8.49" (0.99 lbs) 353 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an ardent feminist and outspoken champion of women's rights. In this profoundly insightful and cogently argued work, Gilman describes how the social and sexual disparities between men and women, long thought to be preordained and unchanging, are actually the result of economics. The position of women as the property of men, their inability to earn in proportion to the amount of work they do, and the very devaluation of their work, all tend to the exaggerated social differences between men as "providers" and "competitors" and women as "helpless" and "unproductive." These differences lead to social dysfunction and ultimately to the destruction of the bond that ought to exist between and unite the sexes. Gilman's classic plea for greater parity for men and women still speaks directly to the problems women continue to face in the workplace as well as to the ways men view women. |