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- Title
"The Women Woke Up": Women's Clubs' Progressive Rhetoric in Gilman's Early Utopian Novels.
- Authors
HOBBS, AMY
- Abstract
The article discusses the effect of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century women's club movement on writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The role of the clubs in Gilman's model of transformation is mentioned, as is the general political effect of the women's club movement. Feminine club rhetoric, rest cures, feminism, and women's causes are discussed in the article. Also mentioned is Gilman's life after she separated from her husband and relocated to California.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935; WOMEN'S societies &; clubs; AMERICAN women authors; FEMINIST literature; POLITICAL participation
- Publication
CEA Critic, 2008, Vol 70, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
0007-8069
- Publication type
Article