Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What Diantha Did (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This edition of What Diantha Did makes newly available Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first novel, complete with an in-depth introduction. 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 fiance 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 "e;invisible"e; work, providing a means for the well-being and moral uplift of working girls, and releasing middle-class and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.In her introduction to the novel, Charlotte J. Rich highlights Gilman's engagement with such hotly debated Progressive Era issues as the "e;servant question,"e; the rise of domestic science, and middle-class efforts to protect and aid the working girl. She illuminates the novel's connections to Gilman's other feminist works, including "e;The Yellow Wall-Paper"e; and Herland; to her personal life; and to her commitment to women's social and economic freedom. Rich contends that the novel's engagement with class and race makes it particularly significant to the newly complex understanding of Gilman that has emerged in recent scholarship. What Diantha Did provides essential insight into Charlotte Perkins Gilman's important legacy of social thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822386520
• Artikelnr.: 54814123

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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