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
—— moral, an exclusively social distinction, 319.
—— struggle of individual _vs._ social, 327.
—— moral, of woman, large, 335.
—— of duty of the mother, restricted, 277.
Sensual not sexual, 40.
Sentiment, power of, 248.
Separation, unnatural, of mother and son, 268.
Serf in the Middle Ages, 78.
Servant, an intruder, 256.
—— the mother as a social, 290.
—— cooking of, 239.
Servant-motherhood, the result of the sexuo-economic relation, 279.
—— effect of, on the child, 280.
Servant-wife, home life of, 263.
Service, professional, in cooking, 241.
—— high and low forms of social, 279.
Servile world, that in which all women are house-servants, 262.
Servitude, discord of will and action in, 333.
—— of the mother, the result of, 334.
“Sex, the weaker,” 45.
—— domination of, 53.
—— instance of modification of, 65.
—— decadence of, 158.
—— opinions on over-development of, 172.
—— man’s sovereignty due to accident of, 337.
—— children trained to, 309.
Sex-attraction, factor in reproduction, 30.
—— manifested to excess, 31.
—— curse of excessive, 31.
—— economic profit of woman won through, 63.
—— woman’s amusement gained through, 308.
Sex-attributes different from race-attributes, 57.
Sex-characteristics, primary and secondary, 32, 33.
Sex-competition of primitive man, 60.
Sex-development, precocity of, in children, 54–56.
—— cause of exaggerated, 58.
—— one check to excessive, 72.
—— proofs of excessive, 84.
Sex-distinction, natural processes of, 29.
—— manifestations of, 32.
—— excessive, 33.
—— checks to, 35.
—— development of, in woman, 38.
—— woman’s means of getting a livelihood, 38.
—— primary and secondary, 40, 41.
—— normal and abnormal, 43.
—— psychic manifestation of, 47.
—— of women, 93.
Sex-energy, primal manifestation of, 42.
—— a racial wrong, 96.
—— excess of, 96.
—— result of excessive, 141.
Sex-function, woman’s preparation of food a, 235, 237.
Sex-indulgence, excess in, 30.
Sex-interest in marriage, 93.
Sex-life, the higher, 143.
Sex-prejudice of the Chinese, 69.
—— of the Hindu, 69.
Sex-relation and economic relation, 5.
—— phenomena of, in the human species, 23.
Sex-relation a field of human difficulty, 25.
—— maladjustment of, in humanity, 25.
—— a frightful source of evil, 26.
—— personal quality of, 83, 106.
—— feminine value of women in, 94.
—— only for sale among human beings, 95.
—— in marriage, 97.
—— not social relation, 105.
—— _vs._ sexuo-economic relation, 108.
Sex-relationship, 74.
—— wider human relationship not a wider, 304.
Sexual selection, process of, 111.
Sexuo-economic relation, effect of, 94.
—— benefit of, 136.
—— results of, 187, 329.
—— outgrown, 316.
—— selfishness fostered by, 338.
Shalott, Lady of, 87.
Share in social intercourse, woman’s, 295.
Shrew, Petruchio and the, 333.
Slave, vices of the, in woman, 333.
Slavery, results of chattel, 82.
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