Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American writer, philosopher and social reformer. As a result, she received very little formal education in her youth, but later attended the Rhode Island School of Design. Gilman married artist Charles Stetson in , but domestic life proved unsuited to her, and after the birth of their daughter, Katharine, she began to suffer from depression.
She divorced her husband in and, believing in equal paternal rights, send her daughter to live with him. Over the intervening years, Gilman wrote and published more than a dozen books as well as poems and non-fiction, and ran her own magazine, The Forerunner , in which many of her stories appeared.
Among her most famous works are the manifesto Women and Economics , a radical call for economic independence for women, and her feminist utopian novel Herland about an all-female society. After she was diagnosed with incurable cancer, Gilman ended her own life in Gilman, Charlotte Perkins : The Crux. A Novel. New York: Charlton Company. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins : Mann und Frau. Die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen der Geschlechter als Hauptfaktor der sozialen Entwicklung.
Dresden: Heinrich von Minden Verlag. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins : His religion and hers. A study of the faith of our fathers and the work of our mothers. New York, London. Or, Our androcentric culture. New York: Source Book Press. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins : The home; its work and influence. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins : Women and Economics. New York: Gordon Press. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins : Herland.
New York: Pantheon Books. A nonfiction reader. New York: Columbia Univ. Pr; Columbia Univ. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins : Mr. Vaughns Ende. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins : Unpunished.
