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 HistoryThe Living of Charlotte Perkins GilmanPapers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1846-1961Feminist 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 RabinowitzThe Philanthropist and the Physical EducatorCatharine Beecher | National Women's History MuseumCatharine Beecher, Champion of Women’s Education - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities ProjectPhysiology and Calisthenics. For Schools and Families | Catherine BeecherThe Origins of American Women’s Exercise – The New Inquiry