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The Crux

The Crux

Perkins Gilman, Charlotte

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1986950042
ISBN13: 9781986950046
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Mar 29 2018
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel The Crux is an important early feminist work that brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. First published serially in the feminist journal The Forerunner in 1910, The Crux tells the story of a group of New England women who move west to start a boardinghouse for men in Colorado. The innocent central character, Vivian Lane, falls in love with Morton Elder, who has both gonorrhea and syphilis. The concern of the novel is not so much that Vivian will catch syphilis, but that, if she were to marry and have children with Morton, she would harm the national stock. The novel was written, in Gilman's words, as a story . . . for young women to read . . . in order that they may protect themselves and their children to come. What was to be protected was the civic imperative to produce pureblooded citizens for a utopian ideal.

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