Our Androcentric Culture, Or The Man Made World

This is Gilman's exposition of Lester Ward's Gynaecocenric Theory: "that woman is the race type, and the male, originally but a sex type, reaching a later equality with the female, and, in the human race, becoming her master for a considerable historic period." This happened, she explains, because women are peace-loving nurturers, and men dominate through violence.