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
—— family, strengthened by economic changes, 302.
—— family, family visiting a strain on, 303.
Tournament of the Middle Ages, 111.
Towers, the Duchess of, 148.
Training for motherhood, 202.
—— the wrong, for baby-culture, 270.
Transition, all periods of, painful, 296.
Treason to society, the price of comfort in the home, 278.
Trend, inevitable, of life, 73.
Tribe, an extension of the family, 215.
—— the pastoral unit, 215.
True family life, fulfilment of the, 268.
—— love, course of, 28.
—— marriage, increasing demand for, 218.
—— privacy, 256.
—— social progress, 142.
Truest motherhood, 290.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 161.
Uniform environment, result of, 64.
Unit, the family as a social, 217.
Unity, family, bound by a table-cloth, 244.
Universities of the Middle Ages, 285.
Unnatural separation of mother and son, 268.
Unpreparedness for motherhood, 192.
Unsatisfactory association among women, 307.
Unsuitable to maternity, professions, 246.
Use, familiarity by, 79.
Utah, the family in, 216.
Value of free association of the sexes, 314.
Vedas, the, 28.
_Vendetta_, an over-development of family devotion, 275.
—— of the Corsicans, 275.
Vice _vs._ virtue, 109.
—— promoted by the sexuo-economic relation, 312.
Vices of the slave in woman, 333.
—— of the master in man, 338.
Vigor of Greece, 72.
Virtue _vs._ vice, 109.
—— of loyalty, growth of, 274.
—— a relative term, 274.
—— of faith in religion, 322.
—— human distinction in, 322.
—— altruism the main distinction of human, 323.
—— Huxley on, 324.
—— of obedience, 325.
Virtues, savage, reflection of savage conditions, 321.
—— changing scale of, 322.
Voice of God, our good impulses called the, 328.
Wage-earners, women, with families, ideal home for, 242.
—— in New York, 242.
War, woman in, 165.
Ward, Lester F., quotation from, 171.
Wealth a social product, 101.
Wider human relationship not a wider sex-relationship, a, 304.
Wife, husband and, not business partners, 12.
—— supported by her husband, 18.
Will and action, discord of, in servitude, 333.
Wives as earners through domestic service, 14.
—— not salaried as mothers, 17.
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 166.
—— club movement, 164.
—— movement, 122, 139, 144, 146.
Womanliness of home duties, 225.
Women as economic factors in society, 13;
labor of, not a factor in economic exchange, 15.
—— as mothers, 15.
—— house service of, 20.
—— extra-maternal duties of, 21.
—— modification of, to sex, 39.
—— in proverb, 43, 50, 65, 71, 114.
—— development of sex-activity of, 44.
—— of the harem, 45.
—— of the Germanic tribes, 46.
—— feebleness of, a sex-distinction, 46.
—— of fiction, 50.
—— over-sexed, 54.
—— first enslaving of, 60.
—— results of enslaving of, 61.
—— fed and defended by men, 61.
—— economic profit of, won through sex-attraction, 63.
—— restrictions upon, 66.
—— work of, 67.
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