Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer

by Jill Rudd (Editor), Val Gough (Editor)

Overview

“These essays exemplify all the virtues of interdisciplinarity in consideration of that most multidisciplined of writers, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The contributors simultaneously clarify and complicate our understanding of some of the more vexed areas of Gilman's work by engaging saliently with her theories of ethnicity, class, prostitution, and the dynamics of gender; posing difficult questions to contemporary feminist scholars; and providing sensitive and insightful guidance to a well-chosen and wide range of texts.”—Janet Beer, author of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587293108
Publisher:	University of Iowa Press
Publication date:	04/01/1999
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	330
File size:	488 KB

About the Author

Jill Rudd is a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. With Val Gough, she organized the first international conference on Gilman, held in July 1995 in Liverpool.

Val Gough is a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. With Jill Rudd, she organized the first international conference on Gilman, held in July 1995 in Liverpool.

Table of Contents

Table of contents:  Gilman and Feminism Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Rights of Women: Her Legacy for the 1990's - Ann J. Lane The Intellectualism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Evolutionary Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Class - Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams Women, Work, and the Home “What a Comfort a Woman Doctor Is!”: Medical Women in the Life and Writing of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Frederick Wegener Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Three Women: Work, Marriage, and the Old(er) Woman -Katharine Cockin Home Is Where the Heart Is—Or Is It? Three Women and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Theory of the Home - Marie T. Farr Kitchenless Houses and Homes: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Reform of Architectural Space - Yvonne Gaudelius Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Educational Reform - Deborah M. de Simone Motherhood and Reproduction Consumption, Production, and Reproduction in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Naomi B. Zauderer Reconfiguring Vice: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Prostitution, and Frontier Sexual Contracts -Judith A. Allen “Fecundate! Discriminate!”Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Theologizing of Maternity -Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar Public and Private Faces Hair Today, Shorn Tomorrow? Hair Symbolism, Gender, and the Agency of Self - Karen Stevenson “Written to Drive Nails With”: Recalling the Early Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman -Catherine Golden “But O My Heart”: The Private Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Denise D. Knight