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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartford, Conn. Her traumatic childhood led to depression and to her eventual suicide. Gilman's father abandoned the family when she was a child and her mother, who was not an affectionate woman, recruited relatives to help raise her children. Among visa mer these relatives was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Due to her family situation, Gilman learned independence, but also became alienated from her many female relatives. Gilman married in 1884 and was soon diagnosed with depression. She was prescribed bed rest, which only seemed to aggravate her condition and she eventually divorced her husband, fearing that marriage was partly responsible for her depressed state. After this, Gilman became involved in feminist activities and the writing that made her a major figure in the women's movement. Books such as Women and Economics, written in 1898, are proof of her importance as a feminist. Here she states that only when women learn to be economically independent can true equality be achieved. Her fiction works, particularly The Yellow Wallpaper, are also written with feminist ideals. A frequent lecturer, she also founded the feminist magazine Forerunner in 1909. Gilman, suffering from cancer, chose to end her own life and committed suicide on August 17, 1935. More information about this fascinating figure can be found in her book The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography, published in 1935. (Bowker Author Biography) Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartford, Conn. Her traumatic childhood led to depression and to her eventual suicide. Gilman's father abandoned the family when she was a child and her mother, who was not an affectionate woman, recruited relatives to help raise her children. Among these relatives was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Due to her family situation, Gilman learned independence, but also became alienated from her many female relatives. Gilman married in 1884 and was soon diagnosed with depression. She was prescribed bed rest, which only seemed to aggravate her condition and she eventually divorced her husband, fearing that marriage was partly responsible for her depressed state. After this, Gilman became involved in feminist activities and the writing that made her a major figure in the women's movement. Books such as Women and Economics, written in 1898, are proof of her importance as a feminist. Here she states that only when women learn to be economically independent can true equality be achieved. Her fiction works, particularly The Yellow Wallpaper, are also written with feminist ideals. A frequent lecturer, she also founded the feminist magazine Forerunner in 1909. Gilman, suffering from cancer, chose to end her own life and committed suicide on August 17, 1935. More information about this fascinating figure can be found in her book The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography, published in 1935. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Gilman, Charlotte Anna Perkins
Andra namn
Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Födelsedag
1860-07-03
Avled
1935-08-17
Begravningsplats
cremated
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Dödsort
Pasedena, California, USA
Dödsorsak
suicide
Bostadsorter
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Pasadena, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Utbildning
Rhode Island School of Design
Yrken
novelist
short story writer
social reformer
magazine editor
public speaker
economist (visa alla 8)
women's rights activist
suffragist
Relationer
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (great-aunt)
Beecher, Catharine (great-aunt)
Hooker, Isabella Beecher (great-aunt)
Kort biografi
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Frederick Beecher Perkins and his wife Mary Fitch Westcott.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine Beecher, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, three of the most distinguished 19th-century American writers and women's advocates were her great-aunts of whom she was very proud. Charlotte herself became a noted writer, public speaker, economist, and women's rights and suffrage activist. In 1884, at the age of 24, she married Charles Walter Stetson, an aspiring artist, and the following year gave birth to their daughter. Shortly after the birth, Charlotte suffered a serious bout of what today would be diagnosed as post-partum depression. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," published in 1892. She also wrote a famous treatise, Women and Economics (1898), in which she said women could never be truly independent until they first had economic freedom. This theme was explored through her lectures, her more than 1,000 nonfiction publications, and her fiction. In 1900, Gilman remarried to her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman. Over the next 25 years, Charlotte also ran her own magazine, The Forerunner, in which many of her stories appeared. An advocate of euthanasia, Gilman ended her life at the age of 75 with an overdose of chloroform. Her work fell into obscurity until it was revived by the women’s movement in the 1960s. In 1994, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.

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misogyny from beginning to end! a perfect world full of only women built through eugenics…….
 
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highlandcow | 70 andra recensioner | Mar 13, 2024 |
Solid three star rating. Writing was well done, Gothic tale that grabbed my interest, and something worth reading. The story makes me want to read more from this author. If it wasn’t for the TBR game I created, I probably wouldn’t never have picked this book up because I would not have known about it. Looking forward to reading more.
 
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mybookloveobsession | 145 andra recensioner | Mar 12, 2024 |
A quick read - not a single sentence longer than it had to be - but one of the most compelling and powerful short stories I have read.
 
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soylentgreen23 | 55 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
This book has tons of potential. Unfortunately, the author's idealism and the politics of the day got in the way of a good story.

Like others have said, I wish this book could have even touched on sexuality. I know the book was written at a time where any hint of lesbianism would get your book banned, but my suspension of disbelief could not hold that a country of human women could exist continuously for 2000 years and not think "Oh hey, how about having sex with each other?"

I enjoyed the sort of anthropological perspective and I think that's probably the best way to approach a story who's main character is actually a society taken as a whole.

I do wish that of the 3 explorers, that one of them had been a woman. It would have really fleshed out the story. And the story was in dire need of fleshing out because it came off as really two dimensional.

The story as it is can be boiled down to: a few guys go to an idealized feminist utopia and become quite startled to learn that women are not actually their personal playthings.

Not a bad lesson, to be sure. But one that could have been delivered by something other than a 10 pound sledgehammer to the face.
… (mer)
 
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Ivia | 70 andra recensioner | Feb 29, 2024 |

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Statistik

Verk
136
Även av
75
Medlemmar
12,386
Popularitet
#1,893
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
354
ISBN
758
Språk
18
Favoritmärkt
21

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