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The Crux

The Crux

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

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ISBN10: 0822331799
ISBN13: 9780822331797
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 29 2003
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.60 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Long out of print, 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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