Charlotte Gilman

Our Androcentric Culture Or The Man-Made World (Illustrated) Charlotte Gilman

In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the welfare of the human race as a whole. Society's long history of male hegemony and female subservience has not enhanced the natural qualities of the human race but rather distorted them. In different chapters she discusses art, literature, family, games and sports. In each case she shows how the domineering male influence has caused grievous problems.