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Motherhood Under Economic Independence
Gilman works through the hardest part of her proposal — reconceiving motherhood once women are economically independent — arguing for organized, professionally supported child-rearing that could do more for children than isolated, amateur maternal care ever has.
Difficulty imagining motherhood outside the old patternThe child's early experience of shame and correction at homeOrganized, collective approaches to child-rearingWhat "nobler motherhood" could look like in practiceReassuring readers this change need not threaten the mother-child bond