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HERLAND BY GILMANChallenging Culture’s Infuence and Stereotypes Against Women

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• Feminist critic and author, born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut.

• Her father abandoned their family, forcing his wife and daughter to live in pomove freuently• Charlotte was a voracious reader and self taught

• !eparated from husband in 1888 and moved to C"# left child with husband•

$his was scandalous at the time• "dvocated economic independence for women in writings

• %ecame feminist lecturer, maga&ine publisher, writer, economist, social reform• "head of her time

• Committed suicide after she learned she had breast cancer in 1'().

• Her wor*s were rediscovered during the Feminist movements of the 60+s

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• " society free of women+s eploitation and poverty where all are eual regardless of their -se and they have no desire toindividually but contribute for the greater good of the commu

• -/e were now well used to seeing women not as females but

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• -ilman believes that widely held societal conventions en

 patriarchal status, and that these conventions were all the mo

 because they encouraged women to accept their subordination

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• -/hy should there be surnames7

• /hy should a woman lose her name and identity after marriage7

•  /hy is long hair considered feminine by men when only male lions in *ingdom have manes and only men in China wear ueues7

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/hat, they as*, do women in the other world do all day if they do not wthe domestic sphere7

• /hy should that god be personali&ed as a manli*e figure7 oc*3

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• domestic violence

• rape

• child marriage

• female genital mutilation

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