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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex.

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“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Gilman rejects the idea that intellectual capacity should be divided into essentially male and female kinds, arguing instead for shared human mental development.

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Women and Economics, Chapter VIII, Project Gutenberg #57913. Gilman rejects the contemptuous category of a “female mind,” immediately adding that the brain is not an organ of sex and comparing “female mind” to “female liver.” It is a historical equality argument embedded in Gilman’s period-specific social/evolutionary framework, not a current neuroscience citation.

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