Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Crux (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

¿The Crux¿, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a fictional novel about an entrepreneurial group of women in North America. First published as part of a series in the feminist journal ¿The Forerunner¿ in 1910, ¿The Crux¿ tells the story of Vivian Lane and her female associates, who move away to start a boarding house for men in Denver, Colorado. Often cited as an important early feminist work, the novel metaphorically and directly examines social issues relating to gender, the role of women, politics, marriage, and stereotypes. The fictional leading character, Vivian Lane, meets and falls in love with Morton Elder who carries the diseases gonorrhoea and syphilis - which becomes a barrier to marriage and having a family more due to the utopian notion that it would harm the 'national stock', rather than the concern of being a risk to Lane's health. The book was originally written, in Gilman's words, as a "story for young women to read in order that they may protect themselves and their children to come." -

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGA Egmont
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788728103661
• Artikelnr.: 64382114

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was born on 3rd July 1860 in Connecticut, USA. Her early family life was troubled, with her father abandoning his wife and family; a move which strongly influenced her feminist political leanings and advocator of women's rights. After working as a tutor and painter, Perkins - a self-declared humanist and tomboy - began to work as a writer of short stories, novels, non-fiction pieces and poetry. Her best-known work is her semi-autobiographical short story, inspired by her post-natal depression, entitled 'The Yellow Wallpaper', which was published in 1892 and made into a film in 2011. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a member of the American National Women's Hall of Fame and strongly believed that "the domestic environment oppressed women through the patriarchal beliefs upheld by society". A believer in euthanasia, she was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in January 1932 and subsequently took her own life in August 1935, writing in her suicide note that she "chose chloroform over cancer".

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Dana Seitler 1
Author's Preface 23
1. The Back Way 25
2. Bainville Effects 36
3. The Outbreak 50
4. Transplanted 60
5. Contrasts 70
6. New Friends and Old 82
7. Side Lights 93
8. A Mixture 105
9. Consequences 120
10. Determination 132
11. Thereafter 145
12. Achievements 158