Yet blinding with the force of natural law;. The common joys of life will dull the pain;. That is the worst. It takes supernal strength. And they are few indeed but stoop at length.
This poem reflects the experiences that Gilman and many other women faced in marriage. She herself refused to wear a corset Scharnhorst, , p.
Gilman argued in her writings that the restrictive and sex-enhancing dress of the day contributed to the over sexualization of women Allen, , p. The original edition of this story, containing an afterward by Elaine R. Anthony, and Jane Addams. The theory presented in this work is that human evolution shaped the socio-economic relations between the sexes.
Perkins argued that the sexual domination and oppression of women by the strongest males, which originated in the prehistoric age as a necessary evolutionary preservation strategy, was no longer socially necessary or productive. By , this work had been translated into seven languages Allen, , p. Gilman was influential, not only at home in the United States, but throughout the world. Her writings were translated into multiple languages, offering her international exposure.
In , Gilman launched Forerunner, her own feminist magazine. In just over seven years, she was responsible for writing, editing, and publishing all 86 issues, each consisting of 28 pages Scharnhorst, , p. Many of the stories she published during this time were fantasies which presented and promoted feminist ideals Scharnhorst, , p. In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
Her accomplishments in writing are impressive; she not only covered a wide range of topics including marriage, economy, labor, social and gender norms, and politics, but she did so through poetry, short stories, novels and nonfiction social critiques. Her writings were didactic, purposeful, and often autobiographical.
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Her father abandoned the family when Charlotte was very young, and her mother moved often with her children from relative to relative, and they lived mostly in poverty.
Gilman spent much of her youth in Providence, Rhode Island, and while she had very little formal education, she attended the Rhode Island School of Design for two years and supported herself there as an artist designing greeting cards.
In , at the age of 24, Gilman married aspiring artist Charles Walter Stetson and the following year bore their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson. Soon after the birth, Gilman suffered from a serious bout of what today would be diagnosed as post-partum depression. While she had often been melancholy growing up, motherhood and married life pushed Gilman to the edge.
Gilman was fed, bathed, and massaged; she responded well to treatment and after a month was sent home with the prescription to live as domestically as possible, keep her child with her at all times, lie down for one hour after each meal, and to never touch a pen, brush, or pencil for the rest of her life.
Her depression returned, however, and soon after coming home Gilman separated from her husband of four years—such separation being a rare event in the 19th century. After the separation in they divorced in , Gilman moved with her daughter to Pasadena, California, where she began her professional life writing plays and poetry as well as fiction and non-fiction works, some of which were published in progressive magazines.
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