Her lectures, novels, short stories, magazine articles (including her best known work, "The Yellow Wallpaper"), and nonfiction books challenged the dominant ideas about women's role in society and helped shape the movement for women's suffrage and women's rights. Gilman combined economic and sociological writings with fiction and utopian thinking, giving her a broad appeal. She laid the groundwork for later feminists like Simon de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, Kate Millett, Shulamith Firestone, Susan Brownmiller, Rita Mae Brown, bell hooks, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kimberly Crenshaw. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Gilman was the most important feminist thinker in the United States. No celebration of Women's History Month would be complete without acknowledging the extraordinary achievements of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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