Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2) Herland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Delightfully humorous account of a feminist utopia in which three male explorers stumble upon an all-female society. Early 20th-century writer's once-unconventional views on male-female behavior, motherhood, individuality, other topics." --
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American sociologist, author, poet, and lecturer whose influential work and unorthodox lifestyle made her an icon for future generations of feminists. Much of her work criticized common perceptions of the role of women in marriage and society, and advocated for educational, financial, and cultural equality amongst the sexes. Her advocacy is exhibited in her novella "Herland", in which she describes a utopian society...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman reader is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers. Probably best known as the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper, " in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry, Gilman wrote numerous other short stories and novels reflecting her radical socialist and feminist view of turn-of-the-century America. Collected here by noted Gilman scholar Ann J. Lane are eighteen stories and fragments,...
Author
Series
Contributions in women's studies ; no. 159
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first and only detective novel begins with a murder to confound any mystery fan: a local attorney, Wade Vaughn, is found dead in his study with a bullet in his temple, a knife in his back, a gaping wound in his skull, a cord around his neck, and a poisoned whiskey glass by his side. As the plot unfolds, it reveals motives for murder as numerous as the means: Vaughn is an evil man who has abused and blackmailed clients, servants,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Broadview Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman's provocative utopian novel Herland, first published in 1915, tells its story through the observations of three male explorers who discover a land inhabited solely by women; the women reproduce through parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). Initially skeptical, the explorers come to realize that Herland has evolved into an ideal, cooperative, matriarchal society--fertile, peaceful, and clean--by selectively reproducing the...
Author
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, as a prisoner in her own bedroom. Never before, however, has the story itself been portrayed as victimized. In this first critical edition of Gilman's "The Yellow...
