Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (; née
Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name
Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American
humanist,
novelist,
writer,
lecturer, early
sociologist, and advocate for
social reform. She was an early and leading figure in the women's rights movement in the United States. Her works were primarily focused on gender, specifically gendered labor division in society, and the problem of male domination. Gilman is best known for the
semi-autobiographical short story ''
The Yellow Wallpaper'' (1892), based on her experience with
postpartum depression, her manifesto calling for women's economic independence, ''
Women and Economics'' (1898), and the
utopian feminist novel,
''Herland'' (1915). She has been inducted into the
National Women's Hall of Fame.
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