Gilman

Question 1

What are women like? What are men like?

Answer 1

Women exaggerate their feminine traits.
They are passive.
They are attuned to emotion and sentiment.
They are concerned with physical attributes and artifice.
Women are Oversexed

Men work outside the home.
Men are painted as rational.
Men are competitive.
Men are aggressive.
Men are “restless”…constantly looking for sex.

Question 2

What explains the difference between men and women?

Answer 2

Women’s economic dependence
on men. Important that it is not biological factors

Question 3

What is women’s work? What does it get them?

Answer 3

Women occupy the domestic sphere. The home is there
domain.
Women take care of the home and the children

Women’s “work” efforts are not tied to their material
existence

Question 4

What are the domestic and social consequences of women’s economic dependence on
men?

Answer 4

Childrearing suffers from women’s economic dependence on
men.

Cooking, housekeeping, and other domestic tasks are not done
in a professional, rational, and scientific way.

Question 5

How does the economic relationship between men and women shape women’s creative
and intellectual capacities?

Answer 5

What is seen as masculine is what is seen as worthwhile. Women’s creative and intellectual capacities are stunted because of this

Question 6

How does the economic relationship between men and women shape men’s attitudes and
interpersonal capacities?

Answer 6

Because men are seen as superior, they don’t have to try as hard and become corrupted

Question 7

How does the economic relationship between women and men shape the development of
the human race?

Answer 7

Women’s work is prevented from being done rationally making it much worse and hurting the development of everyone

Question 8

What effect does the economic relations between genders have on morality?

Answer 8

Both men and women are stunted.
Morality and ethics are effected.
The very human soul is constrained.