Part one of term paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born during the women's suffrage movement. Choosing writing as a career, one of the few careers open to women at the time and one that would allow her a voice, she found her niche. Through literature she was able to express her feminist ideals and wield them at men's oppression towards women. In doing so, she ...

Part two of term paper
... of the biggest challenges women's rights activists faced in the late nineteenth century was fighting the stereo-typical view that men had concerning women. Women were not considered equal. They were the ‘weaker' sex physically and mentally. With this as justification, men controlled every aspect of the woman's life. The husband in Gilman's story is no different. Here the husband regards his wife as little more than a child, calling her "little girl"(1577), and saying her ideas ar ...