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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics

Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu) Season 5 Episode 1

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In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss launch season 5 of their podcast by examining a trailblazing feminist text in classical sociology, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics. By centring gender in her social analysis, Gilman not only observes but critiques how women are forced to be economically dependent on men, on account of their largely being confined to the domestic sphere at least during the time of her writing. In the course of providing a condensed summary and appraisal of what Women and Economics seeks to argue, Louis maybe admits that he sometimes engages in bootleg plumbing work in his own house, to varying effects. 

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