Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Crux: A Novel

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform May 15, 2017)
The Crux is an important early feminist work that brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. First published serially in the feminist journal The Forerunner in 1910, The Crux tells the story of a group of New England women who move west to start a boardinghouse for men in Colorado. The innocent central character, Vivian Lane, falls in love with Morton Elder, who has both gonorrhea and syphilis. The concern of the novel is not so much that Vivian will catch syphilis, but that, if she were to marry and have children with Morton, she would harm the "national stock."
ISBN
1546692800 / 9781546692805
Pages
107
Weight
7.7 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.25 in.

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