The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890–1894

"Literary and feminist scholars will want to take a look." — Publishers Weekly The last decades have seen a resurgence of interest in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, now considered among the most important thinkers in US history. She is best known for fiction—such as the classic short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892)—and nonfiction, including her manifesto Women and Economics (1898), a work of intersectional sociology avant la lettr e. Nevertheless, as a young writer, Gilman made her living delive