Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries: Literary and Intellectual Contexts

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries: Literary and Intellectual Contexts
ISBN-10
0817350721
ISBN-13
9780817350727
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2004-04-16
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Authors
Denise D. Knight, Cynthia J. Davis

Description

By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman's highly public and combative stances as a critic and social activist brought her into contact and conflict with many of the major thinkers and writers of the period. Gilman wrote on subjects as wide ranging as birth control, eugenics, race, women's rights and suffrage, psychology, Marxism, and literary aesthetics. Her many contributions to social, intellectual, and literary life at the turn of the 20th century raised the bar for future discourse, but at great personal and professional cost. -- From publisher's description.

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