Charlotte Gilman cf' Emma Goldman

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Charlotte Gilman cf. Emma Goldman

• Influences in their Lives

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• Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935
• A. Family Conflict Activists
• 1. Hartfort, CT, Maternal Risks
• Mary Fitch Westcott (Frederic Beecher Perkins)
• poor relations
• 2. Effects
• -Catherine Beecher ,
• domestic feminism
• -Isabella Beecher Hooker,
• suffragist
• -Harriet Beecher Stowe,
• Uncle Toms Cabin
• -Ambivalence about marriage motherhood

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• B. Marriage, Breakdown, Choosing Career
• College drop-out, Charles W. Stetson (m. 1884)
• Writing public lectures 1000s inc. The
  Yellow Wallpaper
• Foreshadowed 2nd wave feminism of 1960s
• Remarried 1900-34 George Houghton Gilman
• C. Other Emphases
• Womens Peace Party 1915
• Advocate of Right to Die when one is assured
  of unavoidable and imminent death, it is the
  simplest of human rights to choose a quick and
  easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

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• Emma Goldman 1869-1940 anarchism vs. Fascism
• Factory Work, Anarchism, Immigration
• 1. Jewish ghetto, Lithuania -gt St. Petersburg
  (Czar Alexander II), factory work
• 2. U.S. gt arranged marriage (instead married
  Jacob Kersner)
• 3. 1886 Haymarket Square, Chicago -gt anarchist
  movement

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• B. Public Speaking/Writing Arrests
• 1. Free Love with Alexander Berkman (v. Henry
  Clay Frick 1892)
• 2. Public Speaking Tours
• Free Speech League Roger Baldwins Amer.
  Civil Liberties Union ACLU
• 3. Arrests, Imprisonment, Deportation (1901,
  1916, 1917-gt 1919) J. Edger Hoover
• 4. 1936 Spanish Civil War