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WRITING FEMINIST GENEALOGY: CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, RACIAL NATIONALISM, AND THE REPRODUCTION OF MATERNALIST FEMINISM.(Critical Essay)

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From: Feminist Studies
Date: 20010622
Author:WEINBAUM, ALYS EVE

In one of the stranger passages in her autobiography, the famous turn-of-the-century feminist writer, reformer, and activist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, humorously registers her concerns about wayward reproduction while in the process confessing half-seriously that she never feels completely confident in regarding herself as a true American because of her symbolically inauspicious birthday. Noting that her arrival into the world on July 3, 1860, was untimely, she laments, "If only I'd made it to the glorious fourth! This may be called the first misplay in a long game that is full ...

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