![]() She stresses the connection between work and home and between public and private life anticipates the 1960s debate about wages for housework calls for extensive childcare facilities and parental leave policies and argues for new housing arrangements with communal kitchens and hired cooks. Revived here with new introduction, Gilman's pivotal work remains a benchmark feminist text that anticipates many of the issues and thinkers of 1960s and resonates deeply with today's continuing debate about gender difference and inequality. Gilman's ideas represent an integration of socialist thought and Darwinian theory and provide a welcome disruption of the nearly all-male canon of American economic and social thought. ![]() Yet by the mid-1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was long out of print. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. ![]() When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. ![]()
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