{"product_id":"charlotte-perkins-gilman-a-biography-paperback","title":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCynthia Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Perkins Gilman\u003c\/i\u003e offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life. Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) launched her career as a lecturer, author, and reformer with the story for which she is best-known today, \"The Yellow Wallpaper.\" She was hailed as the \"brains\" of the US women's movement, whose focus she sought to broaden from suffrage to economics. Her most influential sociological work criticized the competitive individualism of capitalists and Social Darwinists, and touted altruistic service as the prerequisite to both social progress and human evolution. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy 1900, Gilman had become an international celebrity, but had already faced a scandal over her divorce and \"abandonment\" of her child. As the years passed, her audience shrunk and grew more hostile, and she increasingly positioned herself in opposition to the society that in an earlier, more idealistic period she had seen as the better part of the self. In her final years, she unflinchingly faced breast cancer, her second husband's sudden death, and finally, her own carefully planned suicide-- she \"preferred chloroform to cancer\" and cared little for a single life when its usefulness was over.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Perkins Gilman\u003c\/i\u003e presents new insights into the life of a remarkable woman whose public solutions often belied her private anxieties. It aims to recapture the drama and complexity of Gilman's life while presenting a comprehensive scholarly portrait. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCynthia J. Davis is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2000) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCharlotte Perkins Gilman And Her Contemporaries: Literary and Intellectual Contexts\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and \u003ci\u003eApproaches to Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman's \"The Yellow Wallpaper\" and Herland\u003c\/i\u003e (2003).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 568\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451519844530,"sku":"9780804738897","price":44.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/7d0163ba2847dd458fb40824110d92ed.webp?v=1778796556","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/charlotte-perkins-gilman-a-biography-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}