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The preface to this work says it explains a problem which "demands the most serious attention of the moralist, the physician, and the sociologist" – it's preceded by a Proem that begins "In dark and early ages, through the primal forests faring, Ere the soul came shining into prehistoric night." Later, the author cites a paragraph from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage to show that nations and races tend to die of "internal diseases" rather than external difficulties. It argues that the raw desire to produce and not the desire to consume is the distinguishing feature of humanity, comparing it to a secreting gland and calling it "race-energy." The idea of the female mind is said to be as ridiculous as speaking of a "female liver" or a "female paw" in mammals. As its subtitle indicates, the work critiques prevailing social roles of the "sex-relation" and studies the relationship of the two title ideas "as a Factor in Social Evolution." FTP, name this 1898 treatise which says that freedom can only exist when ►both sexes are able to produce and support themselves, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
The preface to this work says it explains a problem which "demands the most serious attention of the moralist, the physician, and the sociologist" – it's preceded by a Proem that begins "
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