A first-wave feminist who attacked those who suggested that Darwinism could be used to justify male domination of society. She argued women should have an equal place in the modern economy and was anti-traditional family
Gilman campaigned for more radical ideas on the destruction of the traditional nuclear family, replacing it with communal living and symmetrical roles for men and women.
Though a liberal reformer, many of her ideas at the time, would have been supported by socialist or radical feminists.
