Early feminist author and advocate Charlotte Perkins Gilman is today best remembered for the haunting short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," which recounts the female protagonist's descent into madness. In addition to her prodigious body of fictional work, Gilman wrote a great deal of non-fiction, including scholarly and persuasive essays about equality and the female condition. This long-form essay details the misogyny that was pervasive in Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A liberal feminist text. Rather than considering what is appropriate masculine or feminine behaviour, we should investigate what it is to be human. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 -...
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In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the welfare of the human ...
Featuring breathtaking images, Manmade Wonders of the World is a complete celebration of the world humans have built over thousands of years.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman called herself a humanist and believed the domestic environment oppressed women through the patriarchal beliefs upheld by society.
The Man-made World
During this period we have had almost universally what is here called an Androcentric Culture.
Arguing that humanity has lost its symbiotic relationship with nature regarding housing, a cultural evaluation of architecture considers the evolution of structure development and the possibility of combining the expertise of ...
Our Androcentric Culture or The Man Made World by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.