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First published serially in Gilman's magazine the Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, restaurant, and hotel. By assigning a cash value to women's "invisible" work, providing a means for the well-being and moral uplift of working girls, and releasing middle- and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves…mehr
First published serially in Gilman's magazine the Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, restaurant, and hotel. By assigning a cash value to women's "invisible" work, providing a means for the well-being and moral uplift of working girls, and releasing middle- and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.
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Autorenporträt
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was the author of novels, short stories, poems, and works of nonfiction. She is best known for “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892), Women and Economics (1898), and the novel Herland (1915). Her novel The Crux (1910) is also published by Duke University Press. Charlotte J. Rich is Associate Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. She is editor of The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Charlotte J. Rich 1 Dedication to the Housewife 25 I. Handicapped 27 II. An Unnatural Daughter 37 III. Breakers 52 IV. A Crying Need 63 V. A Friend in Need 72 VI. The Cynosure 84 VII. Heresy and Schism 93 VIII. “Locked Inside” 104 IX. “Sleeping In 114 X. Union House 127 XI. The Power of the Screw 136 XII. Like a Banyan Tree 155 XIII. All This 169 XIV. And Heaven Beside 180
Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Charlotte J. Rich 1 Dedication to the Housewife 25 I. Handicapped 27 II. An Unnatural Daughter 37 III. Breakers 52 IV. A Crying Need 63 V. A Friend in Need 72 VI. The Cynosure 84 VII. Heresy and Schism 93 VIII. “Locked Inside” 104 IX. “Sleeping In 114 X. Union House 127 XI. The Power of the Screw 136 XII. Like a Banyan Tree 155 XIII. All This 169 XIV. And Heaven Beside 180
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