Men Take and Women Give: an 1898 perspective

by David Abbey, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This book was originally published in 1898 as "Women and a study of the economic relation between men and men as a factor in social evolution." The present volume has been given a new title and a limited set of photos selected to provide a visual contest for women in the home, in society and at work. the author "was a poet, anthropologist, social theorist and public lecturer whose ideas were noticed, if not totally accepted, within the academic community of her day" (quote from the Foreward). Early in the book Gilman asserts, "whatever the economic value of the domestic industry of women is, they do not get it. The women who do the most work, get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work."

207 pages, Paperback

Published May 21, 2019