Our Androcentric Culture, Or The Man Made World

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Overview

This is Gilman's exposition of Lester Ward's Gynaecocenric Theory: "that woman is the race type, and the male, originally but a sex type, reaching a later equality with the female, and, in the human race, becoming her master for a considerable historic period." This happened, she explains, because women are peace-loving nurturers, and men dominate through violence.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014729574
Publisher:	Philtre Libre
Publication date:	06/16/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	114 KB

About the Author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.