Women and Economics. A Study of the Economic Relations between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution [Gilman] Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Social Thought

First edition. 340 pp. Gilman's first work of nonfiction, and during her lifetime it was the work she was best known for. Taking ideas from Marx and Darwin, as well as Thorstein Veblen, "Gilman located the source of the subordination of women in the home, society's most venerated institution. She exposed the façade of the sentimental home by demonstrating how it was a limiting place, a place in which patriarchal power was used against women and children, and she did it with theoretical formulations that explained how it came about and why and how it must and will change.Gilman created the rudiments of a theory of gender" (ANB). Women and Economics was called "the first real, substantial contribution made by a woman to the science of economics" by the social reformer Florence Kelley. Crimson cloth with paper spine label. Some chipping around spine label, and slight rubbing along edges, endpaper split at hinges, but binding holding without issue; contemporary ownership signature to the front free endpaper