Reflecting Women's Increasing Independence in the Late 1890s, Author and Feminist

question 145

Multiple Choice

Reflecting women's increasing independence in the late 1890s, author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman supported all of the following except

• A) women abandoning their dependent status.
• B) women seeking power via their roles as wives and mothers.
• C) notions that biology made women fundamentally different from men.
• D) centralized nurseries and cooperative kitchens.
• E) women becoming productive members of the economy as workers.

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