Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Gilman was an American humanist, novelist, lecturer and early sociologist, and a leading figure in the US women's rights movement.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 3 Jul 1860, Hartford, Connecticut (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 17 Aug 1935, by an overdose of chloroform, after a diagnosis of incurable breast cancer in 1932 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Also known as: Charlotte Perkins Stetson, her first married name (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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20 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Humans are the only species in which the female depends on the male for food (opens korrents.com)
“We are the only animal species in which the female depends on the male for food, the only animal species in which the sex-relation is also an economic relation.”
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Treating motherhood as a trade would be repugnant and socially harmful (opens korrents.com)
“It is revolting so to consider them; and, if we dare face our own thoughts, and force them to their logical conclusion, we shall see that nothing could be more repugnant to human feeling, or more socially and…”
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Housewives are kept busy by house service, not by caring for children (opens korrents.com)
“It is not motherhood that keeps the housewife on her feet from dawn till dark; it is house service, not child service.”
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Humans are the only species in which the female depends on the male for food (opens korrents.com)