Rebuilding the economy of the home – for the emergence of the “new woman”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s pioneering thoughts

Guillaume Vallet

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2023, vol. 30, issue 1, 62-85

Abstract: In the closing years of the nineteenth century in the United States, Charlotte Perkins Gilman emphasised the connection between the rules governing the socio-economic institutions of her time and those of home economics. She called for radical transformations of the economy of the home as a way of promoting the “new woman” which would reduce social tensions and improve the economy. Gilman’s most valuable contribution to economics was that she permanently made gender economics a decisive analytical framework for her successors to use in many of their own works.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2022.2108870

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