Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 4 books

"The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, due to...

Herland est un roman utopique de 1915, écrit par Perkins féministe Charlotte Gilman. Le livre décrit une société isolée composée entièrement de femmes qui se reproduisent par parthénogenèse (reproduction asexuée). Le résultat est un ordre social idéal, sans guerre, les conflits et la domination.

First published serially in Gilman's magazine the Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid...

This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts its facts and figures is referred to "Social Diseases and Marriage," by Dr. Prince Morrow, or to "Hygiene and Morality," by Miss Lavinia Dock, a...