Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social EvolutionGilman, Charlotte Perkins
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Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Women -- Economic conditions; Women -- Employment; Women -- Social and moral questions
Co-operation, failure of family, 240.
Corset, first effect of, 77.
Corsicans, _vendetta_ of, 275.
Cost of pleasing women, 312.
Crises, birth of historic, 146.
Cross-bred product of our human marriage, 332.
Custom, liking and, in food, 250.
Dane, 147.
Daniel, proclamation of, 71.
Darkest Africa, 180.
Dead-line of religious development, 68.
Death, gates of, in child-birth, 181.
Decadence of sex, 158.
Decadent civilization, 158.
Decline of the family, 215.
—— of home life, causes of, 266.
Decoration, household, an expression of woman’s economic dependence,
257.
Defence and feeding of woman, 61.
Deficiencies of human motherhood, 172.
Definition of human progress, 208.
Delicacy, feminine, an expression of sexuality, 46.
Demand, increasing, for a true marriage, 218.
—— for a freer social intercourse between the sexes, 296.
Democracy, the Federal, 148.
Dependence, economic, of rich women, 170.
—— household decoration an expression of women’s, 257.
Desdemona, 66.
Desire for work, woman’s, 157.
Development, dead-line of religious, 68.
—— of the martyr, 80.
—— of humanity, 134.
—— of woman, 168.
—— of marriage retarded by the family, 218.
—— outside the home, the highest, 222.
—— of cooking, results of the future, 254.
—— home ties detrimental to personal, 259.
—— of the home of the individual, 264.
—— of child-education, 283.
—— of education, 284.
—— of the kindergarten, result of, 286.
—— of true social intercourse, how to assist, 302.
—— moral, of humanity, 326.
—— arrested, result of, in woman, 330.
—— of submission in woman, 333.
“Devil,” our evil impulses called the, 328.
—— the world, the flesh, and the, 328.
Devotion, a sex-distinction, 48.
—— the height of filial, 176.
—— dining-room, 232–234.
—— the _vendetta_ an over-development of family, 275.
Disadvantage of maternity, 71.
Discord of will and action in servitude, 333.
Disease a life horror, 25.
Distinction, human, in virtue, 322.
—— altruism the main, in human virtue, 323.
Divinity, parental, 175.
Division of labor in housekeeping, 245.
Dog, the economically changed, 323.
Doorway of evil, condition of woman the, 329.
Domination of sex, 53.
“Don’t” (advice of _Punch_), 28.
Dual nature, man’s, 332.
Duchess of Towers, 148.
Duty of the mother, 187.
—— progress the, of human life, 207.
—— a social sense, 276.
—— restricted sense of, in the mother, 277.
Duties, home, as feminine functions, 225.
—— womanliness of, 225.
Eating, bad effects of social, 254.
Economic ability of woman, lack of development of, 9.
Economic basis, the present, of family life, 303.
Economic changes, family ties strengthened by, 302.
Economic conditions, effect of upon the human creature, 3.
—— results of special, 5.
Economic dependence, change in, in the human species, 6.
—— of female, changes made by, 37.
—— of woman, increase of, 93.
—— of woman, ending, 138.
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