"What a treat to have another Gilman novel--until now largely ignored--available. We are indebted to Duke University Press for publishing it as a separate piece and to Dana Seitler for her provocative and stimulating introduction. "The Crux" is in many ways a period piece embodying what today seems outmoded and sometimes outrageous views. Oddly, these same views are also startlingly and wickedly relevant today."--Ann J. Lane, author of "To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman "
She crisscrosses the Mexican-American border to unearth the stories of cousins and grandparents and discovers a chain of fabulists and mystics in her lineage, going back to her great-great-grandmother, a clairvoyant curandera who was paid ...
The "Foote Girls" were bustling along Margate Street with an air of united purpose that was unusual with them.
Most modern thought has offered a simple reply: it cannot. Christ at the Crux analyzes one element of the roots of this denial and charts a route toward rapprochement.
The novel is a "story . . . for young women to read . . . in order that they may protect themselves and their children to come." Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist.
The "Foote Girls" were bustling along Margate Street with an air of united purpose that was unusual with them.
Title: The CruxAuthor: Charlotte Perkins GilmanLanguage: English
Schemes, betrayals, adventure, and satire blend in this delightful debut novel in the spirit of Poul Anderson's classic Time Patrol stories and Fritz Leiber's The Big Time. Albert E. Cowdrey is a bold new voice in science fiction.
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Finalist for the 2014 Prometheus Award.
The Crux of the Matter: Crisis, Tradition, and the Future of Churches of Christ