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“To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America, to say nothing of other countries, who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some d...”
“The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with ...”
“I read The Yellow Wallpaper and found another example of a woman who was locked away by her husband because she was different from other women-too strong, too assertive, and a writer. The captivity...”
“As the drive for the vote heated up in the years before World War I, another less sharply defined movement emerged among more radical women, who called themselves feminists. While women like Charlo...”
“So impressed by her writings was W. D. Howells as early as 1902 that he declared: She has enriched the literary center of New York by the addition of a talent in sociological satire which would be ...”
“The anarchist-feminists' denial of gender-based distinctions precluded their use of many of the arguments for equality utilized by the mainstream feminists during the late nineteenth and early twen...”
“Gilman, like Bebel and Engels, integrated the causes of labor and feminism; but she altered the priorities: The great woman's movement and labor movement of today are parts of the same pressure, th...”
“The antidomesticity of Charlotte Perkins Gilman influenced their views on social organization; both Henrietta Rodman and Crystal Eastman tried to encourage the construction of apartment houses base...”
