Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a utopian feminist whose works often focused on gendered labor division in society and the problems of male domination. She represented California in 1896 at the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Washington, D.C., and at the International Socialist and Labor Congress in London. Her income-generating speeches connected her with similar-minded activists and writers of the feminist movement. In addition to publishing poetry and fiction, Charlotte published six important books of non-fiction, leading her to be seen as one of the women founders of sociology. A member of the National Women’s Hall of Fame and an advocate of euthanasia, she died by suicide by chloroform after being diagnosed with incurable breast cancer.
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