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The Economic Relation Between the Sexes
Gilman states the book's founding observation: humans are the only species in which the female depends on the male economically for food, and in which that economic relation is fused with the sex-relation itself.
Economic conditions as the strongest shaper of a speciesHumans as the only species with sex-linked economic dependenceThe female of genus homo as economically dependent on the maleMarriage as food supply, not partnershipWhy this condition has gone unexamined as "natural"