Books by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) championed women's rights in her prolific fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Discover three influential works by one of America's first feminists in their unabridged form: the short story The Yellow Wallpaper, a haunting interpretation of postpartum depression; the feminist utopian novel Herland; and Women and Economics, which when published in 1898 established Gilman as a sociologist, philosopher, ethicist, and social critic, and is considered by many to be her greatest work.

Written after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do.

A woman and her husband rent a summer house, but what should be a restful getaway turns into a suffocating psychological battle. This chilling account of postpartum depression and a husband's controlling behavior in the guise of treatment will leave you breathless.This Inwood Commons Modern Edition updates Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic so that it's as easy to read and as relevant as if it was written today. The book also includes the author's argument to Congress for women's voting rights, her reasons for writing The Yellow Wallpaper, two essays from modern scholars, and the original unedited versions in appendices.

First published in 1892 in The New England Magazine, The Yellow Wallpaper is one of the first prominent literary works of the feminist movement in the United States, paving the way for a generation of women that would dedicate their lives to gender equality. Gilman strived to remodel the roles of women in marriages, distraught by the oppression of their creativity and intellectual potential.Furthermore, the compelling story of The Yellow Wallpaper is thought to have been influenced by her own personal experiences with depression, only aggravated by the presence of her child and her husband. Referred to Dr. S. Weir Mitchell to cure her condition, she was obliged to live in a period of mental inactivity for some time, refrained from any intellectual work and forced to implicate herself more in domestic affairs. This only led her deeper into depression and pushed her to her breaking point, clutching rag dolls and crawling under beds and into closets.

Kort før 1. verdenskrig sætter verden i brand i 1914, gør tre unge amerikanske opdagelsesrejsende et utroligt fund i et uudforsket naturområde. "Kvindeland" er navnet på det utopiske samfund, der i tusindvis af år har været afskærmet fra omverdenen, og hvor der nu kun bor kvinder. De tre mænds frygt for at blive mødt med mistro og modvilje gøres til skamme, da kvinderne tager dem til sig med åbne arme og gør en stor indsats for at lære dem deres sprog, så de kan blive en del af deres samfund. I takt med at mændene kommer til at forstå landets socialistiske og solidariske normer, befolkningens åbenhed og hjælpsomhed og den fuldstændige mangel på kønsrollernes snærende bånd, begynder de at se deres eget hjemland i et helt andet lys.Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) var en af de første feminister, der forsøgte at forene feminisme med socialisme. Hun brugte sit liv på at holde foredrag og skrive bøger for at fremme kvindesagen. Ud over fiktion og digte skrev hun bøger om historie, antropologi, etik og filosofi, og hendes bidrag til kulturhistorien og kvindesagen har været enormt.

This is a critical edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper", the story of the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed and mistreated, leaving her to face insanity alone. It is accompanied by contemporary reviews and letters.