This book examines a paradigm shift, which can be investigated on three levels as components of a single whole, suggested in the philosophic work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jane Addams, and John Dewey. Through this process, a new, more accurately human model is constructed, one which is ultimately more humane because of that accuracy, than the one by which the majority of us currently fashion our living. The dominant ideology in Western philosophy and culture is androcentric, portrays us as isolated individuals, and characterizes us as capable of being objective and detached observers. All...