Profession, Emotion, and Hope: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Origins of the Sociology of Gender

– Gender as a structuring axis of social life.

– Focus on gender relations of domination.

– Interrelation between economic structure and androcentric culture.

– Critical examination of myths and beliefs that justify the subordination of women.

– Identify the social and gendered conditions behind individual experiences.

– Search for empirical evidence of gender inequalities:

• – Comparative method for analysing gender relations:

  • – Systematic comparison of women’s and men’s experiences and situations.

  • – Comparison of gender-related differences across diverse contexts and times.

– Analysis of the social patterns in everyday life.

– Social project for women’s emancipation. Three ways:

• – Knowledge.

• – Education and socialisation.

• – Reorganisation of domestic, care and sociability spaces.

– Sociological divulgation and feminist pedagogy.