... to what the role of women should be. Among the female writers who devoted their work to defying their views about the woman's place in society were Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a social activist and theorist of the women's movement at the turn of the twentieth century. She developed her feminist ideals in her novels, short stories ... her work, although she is not prohibited from doing what she likes, while the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper is told to keep away from writing by her "loving" husband. Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkin...

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