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
—— specialization and organization forbidden to, 67.
—— Paul’s command to, 68.
—— question of soul in, 68.
—— attitude of, toward marriage, 86.
—— independence of, 91.
—— results of repression of, 119.
—— past sacrifices of, 134.
—— economic dependence of, ending, 138.
—— as martyrs, 147.
—— among the pioneers, 147.
—— progress of, 148, 149.
—— as workers, 152, 153.
—— specialized, 155.
—— desire of, for work, 157.
—— extension of functions in, 160.
—— social interest among, 163.
—— relation of, to society, 164.
—— in war, 165.
—— spirit of heroic, 166.
—— development of, 168.
—— specialization of, 169, 171.
—— economic dependence of rich, 170.
—— place of, in nature, 171.
—— and home life, 204.
—— food and, 226, 227.
—— practice of cooking by, 229.
—— preparation of food by, a sex-function, 235–237.
—— wage-earners, with families, ideal home for, 242.
—— wage-earners in New York, 242.
—— motherhood of, and the choice of professions by, 246.
—— free, and their homes, 257.
—— household decoration of, an expression of economic dependence, 257.
—— share of, in social intercourse, 295.
—— gradual individualization of, 295.
—— entrance of, upon a more individual life, 297.
—— peace and comfort for, 300.
—— forced by their needs to marriage, 300.
—— result of economic independence of, 304.
—— unsatisfactory association of, 307.
—— amusements of, gained through sex-attraction, 308.
—— embarrassments of young man visiting, 311.
—— cost of pleasing, 312.
—— new estimate of true manhood by, 315.
—— personality of, 315.
—— becoming economically independent, 316.
—— condition of, the doorway of evil, 329.
—— result of arrested development of, 330.
—— vices of the slave in, 333.
—— development of submission in, 333.
—— restriction of thought in, 335.
—— large moral sense of, 335.
—— one-sided contribution of, to moral progress, 335.
—— retarding influence of, restricted, 336.
—— self-conscious centres of moral influence, 336.
—— psychic qualities of, a result of the sexuo-economic relation, 337.
World, a servile, 262.
—— organized motherhood productive of a nobler, 294.
—— a humanly related, 313.
—— the, the flesh, and the devil, 328.
Work, woman’s, 67.
—— woman’s desire for, 157.
—— loyalty to our, 276.
Workers, women, 152, 153.
Working for human improvement, 317.
Worship, of the home, 204.
—— family, in China, 223.
Wrong relation between parent and child, 272.
—— training for baby-culture, 270.
Young man, education of the, 188.
—— in the city, 311.
—— new incentive for, 315.
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