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Gilman
1911
A chapter-by-chapter case that 'human nature' is often just masculine nature in disguise.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1911
Gilman's 1911 sequel to Women and Economics widens the lens from economics to culture itself, arguing that family, art, literature, religion, law, and politics were all built around masculine standards mistaken for universal human ones. Coining the term 'androcentric culture,' it applies one diagnosis across a dozen institutions — a method that anticipates later critiques of default-male norms by nearly a century.
14 chapters · 44,981 words · ~3.4 hr read
Contents
The Survey
Gilman's fourteen-chapter survey: the humanness/masculinity distinction stated, then applied in turn to family, health, art, literature, sport, religion, education, custom, law, crime, politics, and industry, closing with her vision of a human world.