Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-305) and index.
Contents:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the rights of women: her legacy for the 1990s / Ann J. Lane -- The intellectualism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: evolutionary perspectives on race, ethnicity, and class / Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams -- "What a comfort a woman doctor is!": medical women in the life and writing of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Frederick Wegener -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Three women: work, marriage, and the old(er) woman / Katharine Cockin -- Home is where the heart is--or is it?: Three women and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's theory of the home / Marie T. Farr -- Kitchenless houses and homes: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the reform of architectural space / Yvonne Gaudelius -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman and educational reform / Deborah M. De Simone -- Consumption, production, and reproduction in the work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Naomi B. Zauderer -- Reconfiguring vice: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, prostitution, and frontier sexual contracts / Judith A. Allen -- "Fecundate! Discriminate!": Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the theologizing of maternity / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- Hair today, shorn tomorrow?: hair symbolism, gender, and the agency of self / Karen Stevenson -- "Written to drive nails with": recalling the early poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Catherine J. Golden -- "But O my heart": the private poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Denise D. Knight.
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