Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution

When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. Yet by the mid—1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was long out of print. Revived here with ...