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A Novel
出版University of Delaware Press, 2002
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Westerns
ISBN08741377139780874137712
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SL4rc0hne9sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Originally serialized in 1911 in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's magazine The Forerunner, The Crux portrays a multigenerational group of women who flee the repressive traditions of their New England village on the advice of a woman physician. Migrating West, they find self-fulfillment in a Colorado town. An argument against the traditional nineteenth-century ideal of female "innocence" that left women vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease, the novel invokes classic frontier ideology along with a feminist critique of the male-dominated medical establishment in order to argue for women's sexual self-determination. It also envisions many of Gilman's best-known reformist ideas for gender relations and social organization, including socialized housekeeping, professionalized child care, and economic independence for white, middle-class women. This edition of the novel includes explanatory notes to Gilman's text, along with an introduction contextualizing the novel in terms of Gilman's biography as well as nineteenth-century gender ideologies, medical discourses, and frontier mythologies.