His Religion and Hers A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers [CPG Family Archive].
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. His Religion and Hers A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers [CPG Family Archive]. New York: Charlton Company, 1923.
12mo, xi, 300 pp.; offsetting (from acid it appears) to the endpapers, with some adjacent leaves also mildly effected; blue wove cloth, edge rules and publisher’s device in blind at the front cover; title, author and publisher in gold at the spine; spine dimmed; very good.
First edition. Inscribed at the front flyleaf in ink: received Sept. 29th, 1923/ my copy! / [long flourish] / to keep. [triple underscore. At the rear endpaper, Gilman has written in pencil: “ 300 / wds to 200 / 60,000 .” Gilman often calculated the number of words she had written, for an article, a book, mostly famously for the amount she wrote over the seven-year lifetime of Forerunner. Like many writers, publishers paid for her articles by the word and she probably began such calculations as a way to estimate anticipated income. Later they appear to have become a measure of productivity and of source of satisfaction in the sheer mass of the work she achieved.
His Religion and Hers is Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s last major work touching on society and gender. She posits that as women play a larger role in religion, “death and punishment would cease to be central elements” [NAW]. Scharnhorst 2142.
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