LEADER 03880nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910791350203321 005 20230725015419.0 010 $a0-8047-7419-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804774192 035 $a(CKB)2560000000011472 035 $a(EBL)537853 035 $a(OCoLC)638861383 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413830 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12103304 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413830 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10384490 035 $a(PQKB)10840886 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC537853 035 $a(DE-B1597)564659 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804774192 035 $a(OCoLC)47356325 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000011472 100 $a20090924d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCharlotte Perkins Gilman$b[electronic resource] $ea biography /$fCynthia J. Davis 210 $aStanford, CA $cStanford University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (567 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-3888-2 311 0 $a0-8047-3889-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. ?Beginnings? --$t2. ?I?m Not Domestic and Don?t Want to Be? --$t3. ?I Am Not the Combining Sort? --$t4. ?A Life with No Beyond!? --$t5. ?Begin New? --$t6. ?The Duty Farthest? --$t7. ?A Woman-at-Large? --$t8. ?Living and Loving? --$t9. ?A Cleared Path? --$t10. ?Readjustment? --$t11. ?The Forerunner? --$t12. ?Begin Again? --$t13. ?A Returned Exile? --$t14. ?The Stepping Off Place? --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tSelect Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aCharlotte Perkins Gilman offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life. Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860?1935) launched her career as a lecturer, author, and reformer with the story for which she is best-known today, "The Yellow Wallpaper." She was hailed as the "brains" of the US women's movement, whose focus she sought to broaden from suffrage to economics. Her most influential sociological work criticized the competitive individualism of capitalists and Social Darwinists, and touted altruistic service as the prerequisite to both social progress and human evolution. By 1900, Gilman had become an international celebrity, but had already faced a scandal over her divorce and "abandonment" of her child. As the years passed, her audience shrunk and grew more hostile, and she increasingly positioned herself in opposition to the society that in an earlier, more idealistic period she had seen as the better part of the self. In her final years, she unflinchingly faced breast cancer, her second husband's sudden death, and finally, her own carefully planned suicide? she "preferred chloroform to cancer" and cared little for a single life when its usefulness was over. Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents new insights into the life of a remarkable woman whose public solutions often belied her private anxieties. It aims to recapture the drama and complexity of Gilman's life while presenting a comprehensive scholarly portrait. 606 $aWomen authors, American$y19th century$vBiography 606 $aWomen authors, American$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aFeminists$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aWomen authors, American 615 0$aWomen authors, American 615 0$aFeminists 676 $a818/.409 676 $aB 700 $aDavis$b Cynthia J.$f1964-$01382127 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791350203321 996 $aCharlotte Perkins Gilman$93862595 997 $aUNINA