Our Androcentric Culture or the Man Made World - Softcover

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

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9781500997762: Our Androcentric Culture or the Man Made World

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ISBN 10: 1500997765 ISBN 13: 9781500997762

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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This is a radical feminine text by the author of 'The Yellow Wallpaper'. Gilman elaborates the doctrine of feminine superiority in her sprightly volume ‘The Man-made World; Or our androcentric culture’. That one sex should have monopolized all human activities, called them man’s work, and managed them as such is what is meant, she said, by the phrase, ‘androcentric culture.’ This man-made world she analyzed with great enthusiasm and acuteness. She pronounced force to be the natural governing agency of man, while love and common service are the maternal contribution. Destruction is the method of man; selection the way of women. She contended that there had never been a democracy but merely an ‘andocracy,’ and further expressed the confident belief that all genuine economic democracy must rest upon a free womanhood. Here, in short, was a demand for something other than a traditional man-made world, a plea for legal, political and social equality in the broadest sense of the term.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.

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