The Home

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Overview

Reproduction of the original: The Home by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783752339062
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	07/25/2020
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

THE HOME
Shall the home be our world ... or the world our home?
To every Man who maintains a Home-
To every Woman who "keeps house"-
To every House-Servant, owned, hired, or married-
To every Boy and Girl who lives at Home-
To every Baby who is born and reared at Home-
In the hope of better homes for all this book is dedicated.

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Table of Contents

	Introduction to the AltaMira Press Edition	vii
I.	Introductory	3
II.	The Evolution of the Home	14
III.	Domestic Mythology	36
IV.	Present Conditions	62
V.	The Home as a Workshop. I. The Housewife	82
VI.	The Home as a Workshop. II. The Housemaid	104
VII.	Home-Cooking	124
VIII.	Domestic Art	143
IX.	Domestic Ethics	160
X.	Domestic Entertainment	184
XI.	The Lady of the House	206
XII.	The Child at Home	230
XIII.	The Girl at Home	252
XIV.	Home Influence on Men	272
XV.	Home and Social Progress	300
XVI.	Lines of Advance	323
XVII.	Results	342

Editorial Reviews

Six decades before Betty Friedan's groundbreaking work, well-known American writer Gilman (1860-1935), arguably more famous for her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," wrote that a woman's arbitrary confinement in the home makes her less of a person, and that a mental myopia comes over her as she focuses only on the proximate to the exclusion of the visionary. The 1903 edition, published by McClure, Phillips, is reproduced from the original pages. It contains neither index nor bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

What makes this book different is its temporal context. . . . I became fascinated by the description of a woman's lifeworld within a 'typical' middle-class, American home of only 100 years ago. . . . The Home: Its Work and Influence can be considered a classic in gender studies.

Journal Of Occupational Studies, Nov. 2003, Vol. 10, No. 3 - Valerie Wright-St. Clair