The Man-Made World

Or, Our Androcentric Culture

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The Man-Made World, subtitled Or, Our Androcentric Culture, is by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The contents list chapters on the man-made family, health and beauty, men and art, and masculine literature. The first chapter, As to Humanness, opens with the words: Let us begin, inoffensively, with sheep.

The text says that in any library catalogue we may find books upon books about women, and calls itself a book about men as such. The text says the book will point out what are masculine traits as distinct from human ones. The text says the word "effeminate" connotes contempt, but has no masculine analogue. The text says that under this androcentric prejudice the equal extension of education to women was opposed at every step, and is still opposed by many.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American writer and social reformer, a leading feminist thinker whose fiction and nonfiction challenged the constraints placed on women's lives.