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Signs of the Times
Gilman points to everyday, contemporary evidence of change: women's growing demand for their own money and work, and for labor as an expression of human faculty rather than mere necessity — progress that continues, she argues, even against active opposition, including from other women.
Reading "the signs of the times" in ordinary lifeWork as human self-expression, not only wage-earningObjections to women working, examinedUneven pace of change between women and menProgress in spite of internal opposition among women