Concerning Children
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Concerning Children

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Concerning Children

About this book

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Concerning Children reflects her innovative thinking on the social and economic construction of motherhood. In this volume, she takes on American society at its core principles: the betterment of our society through the development of our children. Gilman attacks our conventional model of child rearing, one based on obedience and discipline, rather than on the development of creativity and individuality. She responds to popular practices such as the corporal punishment of children, and proposes new and radical ways of child-rearing including social motherhood, which frees women to pursue careers. Presciently observing more than a century ago that it takes an entire village to raise a child, Gilman's Concerning Children is a must-read for anyone interested in gender and family studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction to the AltaMira Press Edition
  8. I. The Precious Ten
  9. II. The Effect of Minding on the Mind
  10. III. Two and Two Together
  11. IV. The Burnt Child dreads the Slipper
  12. V. Teachable Ethics
  13. VI. A Place for Children
  14. VII. Unconscious Schooling
  15. VIII. Presumptuous Age
  16. IX. The Respect due to Youth
  17. X. Too Much Consideration
  18. XI. Six Mothers
  19. XII. Meditations on the Nurse-maid
  20. XIII. Children and Servants
  21. XIV. Mothers, Natural and Unnatural
  22. XV. Social Parentage