Description: What Diantha Did by Charlotte Perkins Gilman This edition of What Diantha Did makes newly available Charlotte Perkins Gilmans first novel, complete with an in-depth introduction. First published serially in Gilmans magazine The Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, restaurant, and hotel. By assigning a cash value to womens "invisible" work, providing a means for the well-being and moral uplift of working girls, and releasing middle-class and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.In her introduction to the novel, Charlotte J. Rich highlights Gilmans engagement with such hotly debated Progressive Era issues as the "servant question," the rise of domestic science, and middle-class efforts to protect and aid the working girl. She illuminates the novels connections to Gilmans other feminist works, including "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Herland; to her personal life; and to her commitment to womens social and economic freedom. Rich contends that the novels engagement with class and race makes it particularly significant to the newly complex understanding of Gilman that has emerged in recent scholarship. What Diantha Did provides essential insight into Charlotte Perkins Gilmans important legacy of social thought. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Details ISBN1546478779 Author Charlotte Perkins Gilman Language English Year 2017 ISBN-10 1546478779 ISBN-13 9781546478775 Format Paperback Publication Date 2017-05-04 Pages 166 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:128229528;
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