夏洛特．柏金斯．吉爾曼（Charlotte Perkins Gilman，1860-1935） 美國知名作家、女性主義先鋒，及社會運動改革家。 父親在她嬰兒時期就棄家離去，家境貧寒。母親為保護她，禁止她與別人有過多交往和閱讀小說，童年時期很孤單，上過七所不同的公立學校。後來與父親取得連繫，得到資助，十八歲進入羅德島設計學院。 1884年與藝術家查理斯．沃爾特．斯泰森（Charles Walter Stetson）結婚。第二年女兒出生後就變得抑鬱，接受「休息療法」，醫生禁止她下床、閱讀、寫作、縫補、說話、自己吃飯。出院後仍遵照醫生建議，盡可能居家不出，孩子不離左右，每天只有兩小時的智力活動，但後來抑鬱症仍然加重，開始出現自殺行為。她的半自傳式短篇小說《黃壁紙》即來自此段經歷。 1894年正式離婚，與女兒搬到了加州，開始活躍於一些女權和改革組織中...(展开全部)

夏洛特．柏金斯．吉爾曼（Charlotte Perkins Gilman，1860-1935） 美國知名作家、女性主義先鋒，及社會運動改革家。 父親在她嬰兒時期就棄家離去，家境貧寒。母親為保護她，禁止她與別人有過多交往和閱讀小說，童年時期很孤單，上過七所不同的公立學校。後來與父親取得連繫，得到資助，十八歲進入羅德島設計學院。 1884年與藝術家查理斯．沃爾特．斯泰森（Charles Walter Stetson）結婚。第二年女兒出生後就變得抑鬱，接受「休息療法」，醫生禁止她下床、閱讀、寫作、縫補、說話、自己吃飯。出院後仍遵照醫生建議，盡可能居家不出，孩子不離左右，每天只有兩小時的智力活動，但後來抑鬱症仍然加重，開始出現自殺行為。她的半自傳式短篇小說《黃壁紙》即來自此段經歷。 1894年正式離婚，與女兒搬到了加州，開始活躍於一些女權和改革組織中...(展开全部)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

A survey of 'The Man-made World' including Ethics And Religion, Art, Politics And Warfare (with Woman and the State)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

A survey of 'The Man-made World' including Ethics And Religion, Art, Politics And Warfare (with Woman and the State)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

A New York Times Bestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself...(展开全部)

罗伯特·卡根，美国布鲁金斯学会高级研究员，多次被《外交政策》杂志评为：“全球顶级百位思想家”。