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Sex before gender: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the evolutionary paradigm of utopia.
From: Feminist Studies
Date: 19980922
Author:Hausman, Bernice L.
Nineteenth- and early 20th-century feminist writers used the word sex rather than gender to refer to sexual difference. The utopian novels Herland and Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, both written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, are useful in understanding the meanings of sex in such context. Thus, sex should be used as the main category in analyzing feminist literary works.
In a 1989 article published in Australian Feminist Studies, Anne Edwards suggests that feminists need to "find new ways of conceptualising ...
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