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Confinement and Arrested Development
Gilman traces how restricting women's environment and activity to the home checks their development as full human beings, redirecting energy that would otherwise go toward general human growth into sex-function alone.
The general law linking economic dependence to arrested developmentRestricted environment versus restricted expressionConfinement to "the four walls of the home"Sex-development substituting for race-developmentWoman as human creature first, sex creature second — inverted by circumstance