Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, grand-niece to Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. She was heir, certainly, to the former’s enthusiasm for purposive exercise and healthful physical education, though not to her conservative views on gender roles. Catharine Beecher was an early and influential leader in ante-bellum America to stress the value of female exercise through calisthenics and female gymnastics.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman thus became one of a number of remarkable women to involve themselves in crusades to change the status of women by reclaiming their bodies through health and exercise, nurturing the first American feminist movement, fighting
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, grand-niece to Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. She was heir, certainly, to the former’s enthusiasm for purposive exercise and healthful physical education, though not to her conservative views on gender roles. Catharine Beecher was an early and influential leader in ante-bellum America to stress the value of female exercise through calisthenics and female gymnastics.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman thus became one of a number of remarkable women to involve themselves in crusades to change the status of women by reclaiming their bodies through health and exercise, nurturing the first American feminist movement, fighting