![]() In the first place, during most of Gilman's lifetime, philology and early work in anthropology had not yet given rise to linguistics as a unified discipline. What has never been adequately recognized, however, is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's contribution to a feminist analysis of language. According to the history Carl Degler, "It is hardly an exaggeration to speak of her as the major intellectual leader of the struggle for women's rights, in the broadest sense, during the first two decades of the twentieth century" (1956: 22). ![]() A Woman-Made Language: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and HerlandĬharlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is remembered today as a Progressive philosopher, socialist, and radical feminist, a descendant of the prominent New England family that produced Henry Ward Beecher, Catherine Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. ![]()
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