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The Crux

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Weary of the stifling New England town of Bainville, a group of women led by a young woman named Vivian move to Colorado to start a boarding house. A woman doctor among them warns of the sexually transmitted disease concealed by respectable men, and argues that women must know the truth before they marry.

A frank feminist novel from 1911 whose eugenic reasoning belongs to its moment. Download the free EPUB.

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