En 1884 ŝi edziĝis kun la artisto Charles Walter Stetson.[2] Ili havis unu gefilon, Katharine Beecher Stetson. Gilman suferis tre seriozan atakon de postnaska depresio. Tiuepoke virinoj estis viditaj kiel "histeriaj" kaj "nervaj" homoj. Tiam, kiam virino asertis esti grave malsana post naskiĝo, oni foje ignoris iliajn asertojn.[3]
En 1894 Gilman sendis sian filinon al Stetson kaj lia nova edzino, Grace Ellery Channing. Gilman skribis en sia memuaro ke ŝi estis feliĉa por la paro, ĉar la “dua patrino estis egale bona kiel la unua, [kaj eble] kelkmaniere eĉ pli bona.”[6] Gilman opiniis progresive pri gepatraj rajtoj kaj agnoskis ke sia eksedzo "rajtis ion de la kompanio de Katharine" kaj ke Katharine "rajtis koni kaj ami sian patron."[7]
En 1900 Gilman edziĝis kun Houghton Gilman.[8] Ekde la edziĝo ĝis 1922, ili loĝis en Novjorko. Post la tujmorto de Houghton en 1934, Gilman retransloĝiĝis al Pasadena, kie loĝis Katharine.[9]
Reforma Darwinismo kaj la rolo de virinoj en la socio
Gilman identiĝis kiel humanisto kaj kredis ke la doma medio subpremis virinojn per patriarkaj kredoj, kiujn havis la socio.[14] Gilman kredis en teorio de reforma darvinismo kaj argumentis ke la teorioj de Darwin nur priis la viran sekson, tiele preteratendi la socian originon de la virina cerbo.
Gilman argumentis ke vira agresemo kaj patrinaj roloj de virinoj estas artefaritaj kaj ne longe necesaj por travivi en la postprehistoria epoko. Ŝi skribis: “Ne ekzistas virina cerbo. La cerbo ne estas organo seksa. Oni egale parolus pri virina hepato.”[15]
Ŝia ĉefideo estis ke sekso kaj domaj ekonomioj kunekzistas; pro survivo, virinoj dependis de siaj seksaj plusoj por plezurigi la edzon, do li laboras por sia familio. Ekde infaneco, junaj knabinoj estis perfortata en socian limigon, kiu preparas ilin por patrineco per la ludiloj kaj vestaĵoj disegnataj por knabinoj. Ŝi plendis por neniu diferenco inter vestaĵoj, ludiloj kaj aktivoj inter knaboj kaj knabinoj.[16]
Gilman argumentis ke kontribuoj de virinoj al civilizo, tra historio, haltis pro vircentrisma kulturo. Ŝi kredis ke la virinaro estas subevoluita duoblo de la homaro, kaj plibonigo estas necesa por eviti la difekton de la homaro.[17] Gilman kredis ke ekonomia sendependeco estas la nura vojo por liberigi virinojn, kaj igi ilin egalaj al viroj.[18]
Gilman opiniis ke la hejmo devas esti socie redifinita. Laŭ Gilman, la hejmo nun estas ekonomiaĵo, kie edziĝinta paro kunloĝis pro ekonomia neceso. La hejmo devus esti loko, kiun grupoj de viroj aŭ virinoj povas kunuzi en "paca kaj daŭra esprimo de persona vivo."[19]
Rasismo
Gilman opiniis ke britidaj usonanoj perdis la landon al enmigrantoj, kiuj, ŝi diris, diluis la purecon de la nacio.[20] Tiam, kiam oni demandis pri tiu temo dum vojaĝo al Londono, ŝi fame diris: "Mi estas anglosakso antaŭ ol ĉio alia."[21]
Bestoj
La feministaj verkoj de Gilman ofte pledas por reformi la uzado de aldomigitaj bestoj.[22] En Herland, la utopia socio de Gilman ekskluzivas ĉiujn aldomigitajn bestojn, ankaŭ bruto. En Moving the Mountain Gilman priskribas la malsanojn, kiuj rezultas de la enkruciĝo de aldomigitaj bestoj.[23]
Verkoj
Poemaroj
In This Our World,1st ed. Oakland: McCombs & Vaughn, 1893. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. 2nd ed.; San Francisco: Press of James H. Barry, 1895.
Suffrage Songs and Verses. New York: Charlton Co., 1911. Microfilm. New Haven: Research Publications, 1977, History of Women #6558.
The Later Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1996.
Rakontaroj
Gilman verkis 186 rakontojn en revuoj, ĵurnaloj, kaj en sia propra periodaĵo The Forerunner. La plejparto de la rakontoj estas legeblaj en "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Other Stories (1995).[24]
"Circumstances Alter Cases." Kate Field's Washington July 23, 1890: 55–56.
"That Rare Jewel." Women's Journal May 17, 1890: 158.
"The Unexpected." Kate Field's Washington May 21, 1890: 335–6.
"An Extinct Angel." Kate Field's Washington 23 Sep 1891:199–200.
"The Giant Wistaria." New England Magazine 4 (1891): 480–85.
"The Yellow Wall-paper." New England Magazine 5 (1892): 647–56.
"The Rocking-Chair." Worthington's Illustrated 1 (1893): 453–59.
"An Elopement." San Francisco Call July 10, 1893: 1.
"Deserted." San Francisco Call July 17, 1893: 1–2.
"Through This." Kate Field's Washington Sep 13, 1893: 166.
"A Day's Berryin.'" Impress Oct 13, 1894: 4–5.
"Five Girls." Impress Dec 1, 1894: 5.
"One Way Out." Impress Dec 29, 1894: 4–5.
"The Misleading of Pendleton Oaks." Impress Oct 6, 1894: 4–5.
"An Unnatural Mother." Impress Feb 16, 1895: 4–5.
"An Unpatented Process." Impress Jan 12, 1895: 4–5.
"According to Solomon." Forerunner 1:2 (1909):1–5.
"Three Thanksgivings." Forerunner 1 (1909): 5–12.
"What Diantha Did. A NOVEL" Forerunner 1 (1909–11).
"The Cottagette." Forerunner 1:10 (1910): 1–5.
"When I Was a Witch." Forerunner 1 (1910): 1–6.
"In Two Houses." Forerunner 2:7 (1911): 171–77.
"Making a Change." Forerunner 2:12 (1911): 311–315.
"Moving the Mountain." Forerunner 2 (1911).
"The Crux.A NOVEL." Forerunner 2 (1910).
"The Jumping-off Place." Forerunner 2:4 (1911): 87–93.
"The Ceaseless Struggle of Sex: A Dramatic View." Kate Field's Washington. April 9, 1890, 239–40.
Nefikcio
Libroj
His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers. NY and London: Century Co., 1923; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924; Westport: Hyperion Press, 1976.
Gems of Art for the Home and Fireside. Providence: J. A. and R. A. Reid, 1888.
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1898.
"Gum Chewing in Public." New York Times 20 May 1914:12:5.
"A Rational Position on Suffrage/At the Request of the New York Times, Mrs. Gilman Presents the Best Arguments Possible in Behalf of Votes for Women." New York Times Magazine Mar 7, 1915: 14–15.
"What is Feminism?" Boston Sunday Herald Magazine Sep 3, 1916: 7.
"The Housekeeper and the Food Problem." Annals of the American Academy 74 (1917): 123–40.
"Concerning Clothes." Independent June 22, 1918: 478, 483.
"The Socializing of Education." Public April 5, 1919: 348–49.
"A Woman's Party." Suffragist 8 (1920): 8–9.
"Making Towns Fit to Live In." Century 102 (1921): 361–366.
"Cross-Examining Santa Claus." Century 105 (1922): 169–174.
"Is America Too Hospitable?" Forum 70 (1923): 1983–89.
"Toward Monogamy." Nation June 11, 1924: 671–73.
"The Nobler Male." Forum 74 (1925): 19–21.
"American Radicals. New York Jewish Daily Forward 1 (1926): 1.
"Progress through Birth Control." North American Review 224 (1927): 622–29.
"Divorce and Birth Control." Outlook Jan 25, 1928: 130–31.
"Feminism and Social Progress." Problems of Civilization. Ed. Baker Brownell. NY: D. Van Nostrand, 1929. 115-42.
"Sex and Race Progress." Sex in Civilization. Eds. V. F. Calverton and S. D. Schmalhausen. NY: Macaulay, 1929. 109-23.
"Parasitism and Civilized Vice." Woman's Coming of Age. Ed. S. D. Schmalhausen. NY: Liveright, 1931. 110-26.
"Birth Control, Religion and the Unfit." Nation Jan 27, 1932: 108–109.
"The Right to Die." Forum 94 (1935): 297–300.
Elektoj de paroladoj
Ekzistas naŭdek raportoj pri paroladoj de Gilman en Usono kaj Eŭropo.[24]
"Club News." Weekly Nationalist June 21, 1890: 6. [Re. "On Human Nature."]
"With Women Who Write." San Francisco Examiner. March 1891, 3:3. [Re. "The Coming Woman."]
"Safeguards Suggested for Social Evils." San Francisco Call April 24, 1892: 12:4.
"The Labor Movement." Alameda County Federation of Trades, 1893. Alameda County, CA Labor Union Meetings. September 2, 1892.
"Announcement." Impress 1 (1894): 2. [Re. Series of "Talks on Social Questions."]
"All the Comforts of a Home." San Francisco Examiner. May 22, 1895: 9. [Re. "Simplicity and Decoration."]
"The Washington Convention." Woman's Journal Feb 15, 1896: 49–50. [Re. California.]
"Woman Suffrage League." Boston Advertiser Nov 10, 1897: 8:1. [Re. "The Economic Basis of the Woman Question."]
"Bellamy Memorial Meeting." American Fabian 4: (1898): 3.
"An Evening With Kipling." Daily Argus March 14, 1899: 4:2.
"Scientific Training of Domestic Servants." Women and Industrial Life Vol 6 of International Congress of Women of 1899. Ed Countess of Aberdeen. London: T. Unwin Fisher, 1900. 109.
"Society and the Child." Brooklyn Eagle Dec 11, 1902: 8:4.
"Woman and Work/ Popular Fallacy that They are a Leisure Class, Says Mrs. Gilman." New York Tribune Feb 26, 1903: 7:1.
"A New Light on the Woman Question." Woman's Journal April 25, 1904: 76–77.
"Straight Talk by Mrs. Gilman is Looked For." San Francisco Call July 16, 1905: 33:2.
"Women and Social Service." Warren: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1907.
"Higher Marriage Mrs. Gilman's Plea." New York Times Dec 29, 1908: 2:3.
"Three Women Leaders in Hub." Boston Post Dec 7, 1909: 1:1–2 and 14:5–6.
"Warless World When Women's Slavery Ends.' San Francisco Examiner Nov 14, 1910: 4:1.
"Lecture Given by Mrs. Gilman." San Francisco Call Nov 15, 1911: 7:3. [Re. "The Society-- Body and Soul."]
"Mrs. Gilman Assorts Sins." New York Times June 3, 1913: 3:8
"Adam the Real Rib, Mrs. Gilman Insists." New York Times. Feb 19, 1914: 9:3.
"Advocates a 'World City.'" New York Times Jan 6, 1915: 15:5. [Re. Arbitration of diplomatic disputes by an international agency.]
"The Listener." Boston Transcript April 14, 1917: 14:1. [Re. Announcement of lecture series.]
"Great Duty for Women After War." Boston Post Feb 26, 1918: 2:7.
"Mrs. Gilman Urges Hired Mother Idea." New York Times Sep 23, 1919: 36:1–2.
"Eulogize Susan B. Anthony." New York Times Feb 16, 1920: 15:6. [Re. Gilman and others eulogize Anthony on the centenary of her birth.]
"Walt Whitman Dinner." New York Times June 1, 1921: 16:7. [Gilman speaks at annual meeting of Whitman Society in New York.]
"Fiction of America Being Melting Pot Unmasked by CPG." Dallas Morning News Feb 15, 1926: 9:7–8 and 15:8.
Taglibroj, biografioj, kaj leteroj
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Making of a Radical Feminist. Mary A. Hill. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.
A Journey from Within: The Love Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1897–1900. Ed. Mary A. Hill. Lewisburg: Bucknill UP, 1995.
The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2 Vols. Ed. Denise D. Knight. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Membiografio
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1935; NY: Arno Press, 1972; and Harper & Row, 1975.
Akademiaj studoj pri Gilman
Allen, Judith (2009). The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism, University of Chicago Press, (ISBN 978-0-226-01463-0)
Allen, Polly Wynn (1988). Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Architectural Feminism. University of Massachusetts Press, (ISBN 0-87023-627-X)
Berman, Jeffrey. "The Unrestfe: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and `The Yellow Wallpaper. The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on The Yellow Wallpaper. Ed. Catherine Golden. New York: Feminist Press, 1992. 211-41.
Carter-Sanborn, Kristin. "Restraining Order: The Imperialist Anti-Violence of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Arizona Quarterly 56.2 (Summer 2000): 1–36.
Ceplair, Larry, ed. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Nonfiction Reader. New York: Columbia UP, 1991.
Davis, Cynthia J. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography (Stanford University Press; 2010) 568 pages; major scholarly biography
Davis, Cynthia J. and Denise D. Knight. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries: Literary and Intellectual Contexts. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
Deegan, Mary Jo. "Introduction." With Her in Ourland: Sequel to Herland. Eds. Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 1–57.
Eldredge, Charles C. Charles Walter Stetson, Color, and Fantasy. Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, The U of Kansas, 1982.
Ganobcsik-Williams, Lisa. "The Intellectualism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Evolutionary Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender." Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer. Eds. Jill Rudd and Val Gough. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.
Golden, Catherine. The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on The Yellow Wallpaper. New York: Feminist Press, 1992.
Golden, Catherine. "`Written to Drive Nails With’: Recalling the Early Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." in Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer. Eds. Jill Rudd and Val Gough. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1999. 243-66.
Gough, Val. "`In the Twinkling of an Eye’: Gilman’s Utopian Imagination." in A Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Eds. Val Gough and Jill Rudd. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1998. 129–43.
Gubar, Susan. "She in Herland: Feminism as Fantasy." in Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Woman and Her Work. Ed. Sheryl L. Meyering. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989. 191–201.
Hill, Mary Armfield. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Journey From Within." in A Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Eds. Val Gough and Jill Rudd. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1998. 8–23.
Hill, Mary A. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Making of a Radical Feminist. (Temple University Press, 1980).
Karpinski, Joanne B., "The Economic Conundrum in the Lifewriting of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. in The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Ed. Catherine J. Golden and Joanne S. Zangrando. U of Delaware P, 2000. 35–46.
Kessler, Carol Farley. "Dreaming Always of Lovely Things Beyond’: Living Toward Herland, Experiential foregrounding." in The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Eds. Catherine J. Golden and Joanna Schneider Zangrando. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000. 89–103.
Knight, Denise D. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction, Twayne Studies in Short Fiction (Twayne Publishers, 1997).
Knight, Denise D. "Introduction." Herland, `The Yellow Wall-Paper’ and Selected Writings. New York: Penguin, 1999.
Lane, Ann J. To Herland and Beyond: The Life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. (New York: Pantheon, 1990), long scholarly biography.
Lane, Ann J. "Introduction." Herland: A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 1915. Rpt. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979
Lane, Ann J. "The Fictional World of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane. New York: Pantheon, 1980.
Lanser, Susan S. "Feminist Criticism, `The Yellow Wallpaper,’ and the Politics of Color in America." Rpt. "The Yellow Wallpaper": Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Eds. Thomas L. Erskine and Connie L. Richards. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1993. 225–256.
Long, Lisa A. "Herland and the Gender of Science." in MLA Approaches to Teaching Gilman’s The Yellow Wall-Paper and Herland. Eds. Denise D. Knight and Cynthia J. David. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003. 125–132.
Mitchell, S. Weir, M.D. "Camp Cure." Nurse and Patient, and Camp Cure. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1877
Mitchell, S. Weir, M.D. Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked. 1887. New York: Arno Press, 1973.
Oliver, Lawrence J. and Gary Scharnhorst. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman v. Ambrose Bierce: The Literary Politics of Gender in Fin-de-Siècle California." Journal of the West (July 1993): 52–60.
Palmeri, Ann. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science." in Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Eds. Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983. 97–120.
Scharnhorst, Gary. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Boston: Twayne, 1985. Studies Gilman as writer
Scharnhorst, Gary, and Denise D. Knight. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Library: A Reconstruction." Resources for American Literary Studies 23:2 (1997): 181–219.
Stetson, Charles Walter. Endure: The Diaries of Charles Walter Stetson. Ed. Mary A. Hill. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1985.
Tuttle, Jennifer S. "Rewriting the West Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Owen Wister, and the Sexual Politics of Neurasthenia." The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Eds. Catherine J. Golden and Joanna Schneider Zangrando. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000. 103–121.
Wegener, Frederick. "What a Comfort a Woman Doctor Is!’ Medical Women in the Life and Writing of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer. Eds. Jill Rudd & Val Gough. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1999. 45–73.
Weinbaum, Alys Eve. "Writing Feminist Genealogy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Racial Nationalism, and the Reproduction of Maternalist Feminism." Feminist Studies 27 (Summer 2001): 271–30.
↑Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (Boston, MA: Small, Maynard & Co., 1898). "There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver."
↑Carl N. Degler (1956). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman on the Theory and Practice of Feminism”, American Quarterly8 (1), p. 26..
↑Davis and Knight, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries, 206.
↑Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, in Kolmar and Bartkowski, eds.. (2005) Feminist Theory. Boston: McGrawHill, p. 114.
↑Post la eksedziĝo de Stetson, ŝi komencis paroladi pri naciismo. Edward Bellamy inspiris ŝin kun sia utopiansocialismaromanoLooking Backward. Alys Eve Weinbaum, "Writing Feminist Genealogy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Racial Nationalism, and the Reproduction of Maternalist Feminism", Feminist Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2 (sumero, 2001), paĝoj 271–302.https://www.jstor.org/stable/3178758. Alirdato: 2008-11-03.