Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part I Gilman and the Sociological Imagination; Charlotte Perkins Gilman: a feminist’s struggle with womanhood, Mary A. Hill; Introduction to the 1998 edition of Women and Economics, Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson; Excerpt from Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) - Gender and Social Structure, Patricia Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge. Part II Gilman and the Sociological Canon: Excerpt from Introduction: Gilman's Sociological journey from Herland to Ourland, Mary Jo Deegan; Bringing women...in: a modest proposal, James L. Terry; ’Why don’t I know about these women?’. The integration of early women sociologists in classical theory courses, Jan E. Thomas and Annis Kukulan; 19th-century American feminist economics: from Caroline Dall to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert W. Dimand. Part III A Multi-Paradigm Theorist: Evolutionary theory in the social philosophy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Maureen L. Egan; A rose by any other name: Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman) and the case for American reform socialism, Mark W.Van Wienen; Beatrice Webb and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: feminist debates and contradictions. R.A. Sydie and Bert N. Adams; Introduction to The Man-Made World, Mary A. Hill; Can a ’man-hating’ feminist also be a pragmatist? On Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlene Haddock Seigfried. Part IV The General Theory: Charlotte Perkins Gilman on the theory and practice of feminism, Carl N. Degler; Sex before gender: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the evolutionary paradigm of utopia, Bernice L. Hausman; Charlotte Perkins Gilman: forerunner of a feminist social science, Ann Palmeri; Consumption, production, and reproduction in the work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Naomi B. Zauderer; The rhetoricality of economic theory: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Thorstein Veblen, Margaret Lewis and David Sebberson. Part V Women and Work: Excerpts from Home as Work: the First Woman’s Rights Claims Concerning Wives’ Household Labor 1850-1880