Man-Made World or, Our Androcentric Culture, The [CPG Family Archive].
Offering A “Gynaecocentric Theory Of Life”
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Man-Made World or, Our Androcentric Culture [CPG Family Archive]. New York: Charlton Company, 1911.
12mo, 260 pp.; + 4 publisher’s ads; offsetting to endpapers from dust-jacket flaps; a little darkening along the gutter; dark red wove cloth with printed paper label at spine; binding rubbed; lower tips slightly pidgeon-toed; crown of spine has lost 1/8 x 1/2” piece, which has been reglued (rather awkwardly); white label somewhat used with small (1/3” round) stain and tiny nick at right edge; about very good.
First edition. Inscribed by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in ink at the front flyleaf to her husband, Houghton Gilman: To the Dearest Man ever/ Made in the World: / “the man who makes the world most dear to me. / from his loving wife / the Author / Feb. 1911 [double underline]. Charlotte Perkins Gilman dedicated this title to Lester F. Ward whose Dynamic Sociology (1883) and Pure Sociology (1903) profoundly influenced her Women And Economics and The Man-Made World respectively. In Pure Sociology Ward “propounded the idea that the female was the true type of the species... Accepting this idea, Mrs. Gilman in her Man-Made World...claimed that women were by nature peaceful, co-operative, and concerned with life as growth, while men were warlike, competitive, and preoccupied with sex, destruction, and death” [NAW]. Gilman’s affectionate and playful description suggests the deep love she had for her second husband and how successful a marriage it had proved. Scharnhorst 1381. Krichmar 428. NAW II, 39-42. Timelines, 315-316.
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