Human Work represents the first ground breaking analysis on the equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. Noted feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman maintains the notion that it was 'sexuo-economic oppression of women' and not women's biology that kept women from achieving in all areas of work. Accusing men of appropriating certain work as 'men's work' and masking the process as a biological locus rather than an exercise in power relations, Gilman asserts that men created an economic dependence that has prevented women from success in the workplace. Introduced by noted scholars Michael Kimmel and Mary Moynihan, Human Work is necessary reading for anyone interested in power and gender structures in the workplace.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American writer and feminist theorist. Among her works are The Home, His Religion and Hers, and 'The Yellow Wallpaper.' Michael S. Kimmel teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mary M. Moynihan teaches at the University of New Hampshire.
1 Series Editor's Introduction2 1. Introductory3 2. Man as a Factor in Social Evolution4 3. Concept and Conduct5 4. Some False Concepts6 5. The Nature of Society (I)7 6. The Nature of Society (II)8 7. The Social Soul9 8. The Social Body10 9. The Nature of Work (I)11 10. The Nature of Work (II)12 11. Specialisation13 12. Production14 13. Distribution15 14. Consumption (I)16 15. Consumption (II)17 16. Our Position Today18 17. The True Position
Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Hesba Stretton, Adelaide Anne Procter, George Eliot, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Amelia Edwards, Ellen Wood, Charlotte Riddell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman