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American lecturer, critic, writer, and journalist, 1860–1935. Strongly influenced by social Darwinism, she argues against male-dominated society—which she calls our “Androcentric Culture.” Gilman is also known for two works of fiction, a strongly autobiographical account of a woman’s madness—The Yellow Wallpaper—and a delightful utopian novel depicting an all-female society—Herland.
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Bell, L.A. (1983). Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In: Bell, L.A. (eds) Visions of Women. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5304-4_43
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