As a confirmed suffragist, she considered the question of women in society as her province (Degler 11). Degler calls her “the major intellectual leader of the struggle for women’s rights during the first two decades of the twentieth century” (11). “Feminism makes a practice of questioning hierarchical structures and divisions of labor, power, and discourse.” (Bartkowski 14) This is what Gilman questioned, too. Feminism in Herland and Charlotte Perkins GilmanĬharlotte Perkins Gilman is one of the most significant Western feminist theorists from the year 1890 to 1920 (Allen 1).
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