69. GYMS: The Providence Ladies’ Sanitary Gymnasium

Episode Description: Weird Island is back! In the first episode in over a year and a half, we’ll uncover the story of a gym for women in 1880s Providence, begun by feminist philosopher, lecturer and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Episode Sources: “As Near to Flying as One Gets Outside a Circus”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Providence Ladies’ Sanitary Gymnasium, 1881-1884 - Online Review of Rhode Island History The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1846-1961 Feminist Gothic in "The Yellow Wallpaper" | CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935) from The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Suicide Note, August 17, 1935 from The Right to Die 'Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Letters to Martha', by Abigail Rabinowitz The Philanthropist and the Physical Educator Catharine Beecher | National Women's History Museum Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women’s Education - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project Physiology and Calisthenics. For Schools and Families | Catherine Beecher The Origins of American Women’s Exercise – The New Inquiry

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69. GYMS: The Providence Ladies’ Sanitary Gymnasium is an episode from Weird Island by Sara Elizabeth Corben.

This episode is 00:37:51 long.

This episode was published on Oct 5, 2024.

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