Concerning Children
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- Publisher:
- 2002
Summary
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Concerning Children reflects her innovative thinking on the social and economic construction of motherhood. In this volume, she takes on American society at its core principles: the betterment of our society through the development of our children. Gilman attacks our conventional model of child rearing, one based on obedience and discipline, rather than on the development of creativity and individuality. She responds to popular practices such as the corporal punishment of children, and proposes new and radical ways of child-rearing including social motherhood, which frees women to pursue careers. Presciently observing more than a century ago that it takes an entire village to raise a child, Gilman's Concerning Children is a must-read for anyone interested in gender and family studies.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2002
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7591-0388-7
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7591-1639-9
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 299
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Table of Contents No access
- Introduction to the AltaMira Press Edition No access
- I: The Precious Ten No access Pages 3 - 24
- II: The Effect of Minding On The Mind No access Pages 25 - 45
- III: Two and Two Together No access Pages 46 - 69
- IV: The Burnt Child Dreads the Slipper No access Pages 70 - 95
- V: Teachable Ethics No access Pages 96 - 117
- VI: A Place for Children No access Pages 118 - 138
- VII: Unconscious Schooling No access Pages 139 - 155
- VIII: Presumptuous Age No access Pages 156 - 168
- IX: The Respect Due to Youth No access Pages 169 - 182
- X: Too Much Consideration No access Pages 183 - 199
- XI: Six Mothers No access Pages 200 - 211
- XII: Meditations on the Nurse-Maid No access Pages 212 - 232
- XIII: Children and Servants No access Pages 233 - 254
- XIV: Mothers Natural and Unnatural No access Pages 255 - 277
- XV: Social Parentage No access Pages 278 - 299





