The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Presents an early feminist work which brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. This title tells the story of a group of New England women who move west to start a boarding house for men in Colorado.

“What a treat to have another Gilman novel—until now largely ignored—availableWe are indebted to Duke University Press for publishing it as a separate piece and to Dana Seitler for her provocative and stimulating introduction. The Crux is in many ways a period piece embodying what today seems outmoded and sometimes outrageous views. Oddly, these same views are also startlingly and wickedly relevant today.”—Ann J. Lane, author of To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“With reproductive technologies at the center of feminist, medical, and national debate, The Crux offers a fascinating historical perspective on the relationship of reproduction and nationalism. Dana Seitler's introduction offers a useful context in which to read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's quirky, biology-based feminism, her depiction of a women's community in the west, and, generally, the relationship between fiction-writing and the fashioning of gender roles that fueled Gilman's particular brand of activism.”—Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was the author of novels, short stories, poems, and works of nonfiction. She is best known for “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892), Women and Economics (1898), and the novel Herland (1915).
Dana Seitler is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies at Wayne State University.

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ISBN 13	9780822331674
ISBN 10	0822331675
Title	The Crux
Author	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2003-07-29
Number of pages	184
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