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This 3 page paper examines these two women and their role in the movement. Settlement houses and their influence there is also discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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degrees. For example, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Jane Addams had instead of becoming entrenched in the larger business world, ended up doing work to help women. In doing so, health
issues arose, at least for Jane. But the women worked tirelessly to that end. Of course, that is not all that they wanted to do, nor all that they
did. Charlotte Perkins grew up always wanting to write and when she finally did, the heroines in her stories always had to defeat great odds (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). Charlotte
wrote about young girls who are brave and opposed negative life forces, but when she was older, her stories would contain female mentors who helped the young fictitious girls (Clinton
& Barker-Benfield, 1998). Gilman would end up representing "the potentialities of American womanhood" (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998, p.313). Many know her as someone who has overcome gender stereotyping and peer
pressure only to come into her own later in life (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). The author writes: "Charlotte Perkins Gilman struggled for intellectual and emotional liberation..." (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998,
p.313). Jane Addams was another impressive figure in the feminist movement. She had her own settlement house; she and Gilman had pioneered alternative living arrangements (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). In
fact, a student writing on this subject notes that these women were called social housekeepers. Clearly, this references the idea that they were organizing ways for women to live in
order to address social problems. They turned their attention to women as they tried to clean things up. Gilman had a complex without individual kitchens and this would transform the
way people lived (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). When women would rise to the challenges they were presented with, their participation was referred to as either social mothering or expanded domestic
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