Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-22dnz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T13:58:10.864Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Evolutionary Theory in the Social Philosophy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Maureen L. Egan
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This paper examines Charlotte Perkins Gilman's connection with the evolutionist ideas of late nineteenth century Reform Darwinism. It focuses on the assumptions that her language and use of metaphor reveal, and upon her vision of human social evolution as a meUoristic process through which the equality of the sexes must finally emerge.

Type
Research Article
Information
Hypatia , Volume 4 , Issue 1: Special Issue: The History of Women in Philosophy , Spring 1989 , pp. 102 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 by Hypatia, Inc.

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Berkin, Carol Ruth. 1979. Private woman, public woman: The contradictions of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In Women of America: A history. Ruth Berkin, Carol and Beth Norton, Mary, eds. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.Google Scholar
Ehrenreich, Barbara and English, Deirdre. 1978. For her own good: 150 years of the experts’ advice to women. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.Google Scholar
Fisch, Max. H. 1951. Classic American philosophers. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts.Google Scholar
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 1979. Herknd. NY: Random House.Google Scholar
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 1923. His religion and hers: A study of the faith of our fathers and the work of our mothers. NY: The Century Company.Google Scholar
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 1903. The home: Its work and influence. NY: The Charlton Company.Google Scholar
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 1911. The man'tnade world or, our androcentric culture. NY: The Charlton Company.Google Scholar
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. [1898] 1966. Women and economics: A study of the economic relation between women and men as a factor in social evolution. Reprint Carl N. Degler NY: Harper & Row.Google Scholar
Hill, Mary A. 1980. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The making of a radical feminist, 1860–1896. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.Google Scholar
Hofstadter, Richard. 1955. Social Darwinism in American thought. (Revised ed.) Boston, MA: The Beacon Press.Google Scholar
Lane, Ann J. ed., 1980. The Charlotte Perkins Gilman reader: “The yellow wallpaper” and other fiction. NY: Random House.Google Scholar
Mahowald, Mary B. 1987. A majority perspective: Feminine and feminist elements in American philosophy. Cross currents 36 4: 410–417.Google Scholar
Spender, Dale. 1982. Women of ideas and what men have done to them from Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.Google Scholar
Vanderpool, Harold ed., 1973. Darwin and Darwinism: Revolutionary insights concerning man, nature, religion and society. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company.Google Scholar