"A Surplus Woman"
| Title | "A Surplus Woman" |
| Year for Search | 1916 |
| Authors | [Gilman], [Charlotte Perkins](1860-1935) |
| Secondary Title | The Forerunner (New York) |
| Volume / Edition | 7.5 |
| Pagination | 113-18 |
| Date Published | May 1916 |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| 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. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Female author (1860-1935) |
| Full Text | 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. |
