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What the Home Teaches the Child
Gilman questions whether the home, as currently organized, is actually the best moral environment for children, tracing how confinement to family life shapes sons and daughters differently and arguing that an economically free mother changes what the home can give a child.
Sentiment versus evidence about the home's moral influenceFamily life as freedom for men, confinement for women and childrenThe diverging paths of sons and daughtersThe "fissure" that opens in a boy's early developmentAn economically free mother's effect on her children