The crux

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dana Seitler

1911 · 174 pages

sex role
women pioneers
sexually transmitted diseases
eugenics
boardinghouses
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About this book

This novel was published in 1911 and authored by the prominent American feminist, sociologist, author, and lecturer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The novel first appeared in serialized form in the magazine The Forerunner, which Gilman wrote and edited herself from 1909 to 1916.

Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The latest and highest form of Feminism has great promise for the world. It postulates womanhood free, strong, clean and conscious of its power and duty.
Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper. It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.