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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 190910, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fianc 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: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9780822335191
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 200
- Utgivningsdatum: 2005-06-01
- Förlag: Duke University Press