The Home: Its Work and Influence / Edition 368

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Michael Kimmel

Overview

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century. Her central argument, that "the economic independence and specialization of women is essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement" resonates in this work. Throughout, she maintains that the liberation of women—and of children and of men, for that matter—requires getting women out of the house, both practically and ideologically. AltaMira Press is proud to reprint this provocative work and introduce Charlotte Perkins Gilman to a new generation of students and feminist scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759103054
Publisher:	AltaMira Press
Publication date:	01/28/2002
Series:	Classics in Gender Studies Series , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.24(w) x 9.22(h) x 1.09(d)

About the Author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prolific American writer and feminist theorist who wrote over two hundred short stories, including 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1892), a stark account of a young mother's mental breakdown. Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction to this Edition Part 2 I: Introductory Part 3 II: The Evolution of the Home Part 4 III: Domestic Mythology Part 5 IV: Present Conditions Part 6 V: The Home as a Workshop I: The Housewife Part 7 VI: The Home as a Workshop II: The Housemaid Part 8 VII: Home-Cooking Part 9 VIII: Domestic Art Part 10 IX: Domestic Ethics Part 11 X: Domestic Entertainment Part 12 XI: The Lady of the House Part 13 XII: The Child at Home Part 14 XIII: The Girl at Home Part 15 XIV: Home Influence on Men Part 16 XV: Home and Social Progress Part 17 XVI: Lines of Advance Part 18 XVII: Results

Editorial Reviews

What makes this book different is its temporal context. . . . I became fascinated by the description of a woman's lifeworld within a 'typical' middle-class, American home of only 100 years ago. . . . The Home: Its Work and Influence can be considered a classic in gender studies.

Journal Of Occupational Studies, Nov. 2003, Vol. 10, No. 3 - Valerie Wright-St. Clair

Six decades before Betty Friedan's groundbreaking work, well-known American writer Gilman (1860-1935), arguably more famous for her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," wrote that a woman's arbitrary confinement in the home makes her less of a person, and that a mental myopia comes over her as she focuses only on the proximate to the exclusion of the visionary. The 1903 edition, published by McClure, Phillips, is reproduced from the original pages. It contains neither index nor bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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