"A Surplus Woman"

Year for Search
1916
Secondary Title
The Forerunner (New York)
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A solution to what the women who are left without families, widowed, or without men to marry as a result of all the men killed in the war. The proposal is, like so many of Gilman's, is for women to go into business, with the difference here that they do into business together in a Women's Economic Alliance to provide services for a town and housing for the women. See also her "Women After the War." The Forerunner (New York) 7.7 (July 1916): 173-77. 

Volume / Edition
7.5
Pagination
113-18
Published Date

May 1916

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1916 [Gilman, Charlotte Perkins] (1860-1935). “A Surplus Woman.” The Forerunner (New York) 7.5 (May 1916), 113-18. PSt

A solution to what the women who are left without families, widowed, or without men to marry as a result of all the men killed in the war. The proposal is, like so many of Gilman’s, for women to go into business, with the difference here that they go into business together in a Women’s Economic Alliance to provide services for a town and housing for the women. See also her “Women After the War.” The Forerunner (New York) 7.7 (July 1916): 173-77. Female author.

Info Notes

Gilman wrote many utopias; see also 1894, 1895, 1907, 1908, 1909-10, 1911, 1912 (3), 1913 (2), and 1916 “How They Were Denobled” and “With Her in Ourland” Gilman. 

Author Note

Female author (1860-1935)

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