Questions

1. What is the relationship between consumption and production that is fundamental to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s argument? Why does Gilman believe that the woman “is forbidden to make, but encouraged to take” (par. 4)?

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   Questions: - What is the relationship between consumption and production that is fundamental to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s argument? Why does Gilman believe that the woman “is forbidden to make, but encouraged to take” (par. 4)?
2. What are the consequences that Gilman envisions when a society includes “an enormous class of non-productive consumers” (par. 5)?

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   Questions: - What are the consequences that Gilman envisions when a society includes “an enormous class of non-productive consumers” (par. 5)?
3. Gilman decries “the priestess of the temple of consumption, as the limitless demander of things to use up, [whose] economic influence is reactionary and injurious” (par. 7). To what extent do you think she is blaming women for their situation? Is she blaming the victim?

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   Questions: - Gilman decries “the priestess of the temple of consumption, as the limitless demander of things to use up, [whose] economic influence is reactionary and injurious” (par. 7). To what extent do you think she is blaming women for their situation? Is she blaming the victim?
4. What does Gilman mean in the final paragraph by “this false market” and women’s “false economic position”?

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   Questions: - What does Gilman mean in the final paragraph by “this false market” and women’s “false economic position”?
5. Why is Gilman so vehemently opposed to what she calls “savage individualism” (par. 7)? What is the alternative?

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   Questions: - Why is Gilman so vehemently opposed to what she calls “savage individualism” (par. 7)? What is the alternative?