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The Moral and Psychic Gain
Gilman closes by arguing that women's historic vices and virtues alike were produced by the condition of confinement, not by nature — and that once men and women stand equal in economic relation, moral and psychic progress will follow "by the easy right of birth."
"Not woman, but the condition of woman"Confinement as the source of both vice and virtueMoral sense as shaped by economic environmentClosing vision: equality as a natural, not radical, outcomeSummarizing the book's full arc