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In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's piece, the reader gets the idea that she obviously thinks there is more to women than being housewives and mothers. She argues that women should be able to participate in society and not be stuck at home. The idea of a "home-husband" was a funny concept. She said, and I agree, "Never was any such idiot on earth as this hypothetical home-husband. It was not in him to stay in such primitive restrictions. But he has been quite willing to leave his wife in that interestingly remote period." Men are so adamant about keeping females inside the home but having the roles be reversed would be out of the question. -Amy Van Ness | In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's piece, the reader gets the idea that she obviously thinks there is more to women than being housewives and mothers. She argues that women should be able to participate in society and not be stuck at home. The idea of a "home-husband" was a funny concept. She said, and I agree, "Never was any such idiot on earth as this hypothetical home-husband. It was not in him to stay in such primitive restrictions. But he has been quite willing to leave his wife in that interestingly remote period." Men are so adamant about keeping females inside the home but having the roles be reversed would be out of the question. -Amy Van Ness | ||
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| + | I think in order for the women’s rights movement to proceed, people had to move beyond the idea that women were “naturally” moral and nurturing. I don’t think nineteenth-century Americans saw gender as fluid and dynamic, instead it was prescribed by God. In order to change, they needed to learn to see it as less of a biological function, and more of a result of socialization. Radicals such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman lead the way with ideas that women’s forced isolation in the home made them less capable for a public role rather than a natural lack of abilities. -Allison Luthern | ||
