Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World vs Women and economics: Which Should You Read?

Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1911 ★★★★☆ 3.8 127 pages · ≈ 2 h 21 m · Challenging

“Let us begin, inoffensively, with sheep.”

In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the…

Women and economics Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1898 ★★★★☆ 3.7 190 pages · ≈ 3 h 31 m · Challenging

“SINCE we have learned to study the development of human life as we study the evolution of species throughout the animal kingdom, some peculiar phenomena which have puzzled the philosopher and moralist for so long, begin to show themselves in a new light.”

Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by…