Abstract
WHEN Charlotte Perkins Gilman' published Women and Economics in 1898, Feminist movement in America gained an advocate of uncommon intellectual power and insight. Quickly acclaimed on both sides of Atlantic for having written the most significant utterance on women's question since Mill,2 she became idol of radical feminists and was later judged the most original and challenging mind which woman [sic] movement produced.3 Despite this recognition of her abilities, however, she has suffered a neglect in American intellectual history difficult to explain.3a The neglect becomes especially regrettable when one reads her truly thought-provoking analyses of woman's position in a man's world-in remarkable anticipation of modern writers on subject like Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead and Ashley Montagu. Though Gilman's versatile and probing mind roamed over many subjects
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