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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a mesmerizing and unsettling exploration of the female psyche and the stifling constraints of 19th-century society. The story is narrated by a woman suffering from what her husband and physicians diagnose as "nervous depression." She is confined to a room in her home and prescribed a treatment of complete rest.
As the protagonist spends her days in isolation, she becomes increasingly obsessed...
2) Herland
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Herland (1915) is a utopian novel by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland was originally published in The Forerunner, a monthly magazine edited by Gilman, before going out of print for the next several decades. The novel was republished with an influential introduction by scholar Ann J. Lane in 1979 and has since been recognized as an important work of science fiction written by a leading feminist of the early twentieth century.
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With Her in Ourland Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Sequel to Herland.Published serially in the author's monthly magazine, Forerunner, volume 7 (1916).Herland described an all-women utopia in a secluded high valley, where 3 adventurous young men visit by airplane. Eventually, 2 of the 3 are expelled, along with a young Herland woman who has married one of the men. With Her in Ourland continues as the husband and wife tour the world outside of Herland,...
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Women and Economics (1898) is a sociological and economic study by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Inspired by her work as a social reformer and advocate for women's suffrage, Gilman sought to write a work of nonfiction that explained the need to introduce women into the workforce while alleviating their responsibilities as wives and mothers. Women and Economics, arguably Gilman's most important work, employs the theories of...
5) The Crux
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When a group of New England women move to the western frontier, they encounter a new set of problems testing their love, friendship and spirits. In The Crux, Gilman highlights women's need for economic independence and sexual autonomy. The strain of New England life pushes a group of progressive women to move to Colorado. Together, they open a boarding house and create a bustling business that supports both men and women. When one of the ladies fall...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. This volume pairs two of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's most famous works, Herland (1915) and "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892). Herland, a utopian novel, sketches Gilman's model of a society governed, inhabited, and perpetuated solely by women; while "The Yellow Wallpaper," typically categorized as a Gothic or horror story, dramatizes a young wife's postpartum descent into...
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Table of Contents:
Then This
Arrears
How Doth The Hat
Thanksgiving
Thanksong
Love
Steps
Child Labor
His Crutches
Get Your Work Done
A Central Sun, a song
Locked Inside
Here is the Earth
The "Anti" and The Fly
Two Prayers
Before Warm February Winds
Little Leafy Brothers
A Walk Walk Walk
Ode to A Fool
The Sands
Water-Lure
Aunt Eliza
The Cripple
When Thou Gainest Happiness
For Fear
His Agony
Brain Service
The Kingdom
Heaven Forbid!
The Puritan
The Malingerer
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Mackenzie Menter performs Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous 1892 tale of a woman's decent into madness. The unnamed narrator secretly keeps a journal and chronicles her decent into madness while subjected to her doctor-husband's severe postpartum rest cure. She begins to see that a woman is trapped in the suffocating wallpaper that envelops her room, and she becomes determined - - at all costs - - to free her. Rediscovered and celebrated by feminists...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN: Short Stories, Novels, Poems & Essays". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Contents:
The Yellow Wallpaper
Why I wrote the Yellow Wallpaper
What Diantha Did
The Crux
Moving the Mountain
Herland
With Her in Ourland
Three Thanksgivings
According To Solomon
Her...
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Table of Contents:
The Yellow Wallpaper
Why I wrote the Yellow Wallpaper (1913)
What Diantha Did
The Crux
Moving the Mountain
Herland
With Her in Ourland
Three Thanksgivings
According To Solomon
Her Housekeeper
A Middle-Sized Artist
When I Was A Witch
A Coincidence
The Cottagette
Mr. Robert Grey Sr.
The Boys And The Butter
My Astonishing Dodo
A Word In Season
Turned
The Giant Wistaria
Essays and Sketches:
The Man -Made World, Or, Our Androcentric...
11) Matriarcadia
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Matriarcadia es el relato de una sociedad utópica en la que sólo existen mujeres, quienes gobiernan una sociedad ordenada y pacífica sin varones desde hace dos mil años. Su apacible vida se ve alterada por la expedición de tres hombres de muy diferente carácter: un romántico soñador; un orgulloso joven adinerado, acostumbrado a dominar a las mujeres, y el narrador, abierto a comprender el nuevo mundo por descubrir. Los tres tienen la oportunidad...
12) The Home
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The Home: Its Work and Influence (1903) is a sociological study by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Inspired by her work as a social reformer and advocate for women's suffrage, Gilman sought to write a work of nonfiction that explained the role of the home as a human institution, as well as to address the problems and inequities of home life-especially for women.
In the beginning, Gilman argues that "[e]very human being should...
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Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. The second book in the trilogy is her land mark classic Herland. Moving Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society. She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time, largely with greater social cooperation - equal education and treatment for girls and boys, day-care centers for working women,...
14) Die gelbe Tapete
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Die gelbe Tapete ist eine Kurzgeschichte von Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Die Geschichte dreht sich um eine hysterische Frau, deren überlastete Nerven schließlich zu einem mentalen Zusammenbruch führen. Die gelbe Tapete in ihrem Schlafzimmer nimmt nach und nach von ihrem phantasievollen Geist Besitz lässt ihn sich selbst zerstören. Die kleine Geschichte, die in der Ich-Form der Betroffenen erzählt wird, ist in seltenem Maße vom Pathos des Wahnsinns...
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The Man-Made World (1911) is a sociological study by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Inspired by her work as a social reformer and advocate for women's suffrage, Gilman sought to write a work of nonfiction that explained the effects of patriarchy not only on the lives of women, but on the structure and health of society at large.
In the beginning, Gilman observes that though biology naturally attributes motherhood and fatherhood...
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Suffrage Songs and Verses (1911) is a collection of political poems by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Inspired by her work as a social reformer and advocate for women's suffrage, Gilman turned to poetry as a means of supporting the cause of suffragists everywhere. Although she is widely recognized for her novels, short stories, and nonfiction, Gilman's poetry showcases her command of language and fiery passion for the political...
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Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. The second book in the trilogy is her land mark classic Herland. Moving the Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society. She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time, largely with greater social cooperation - equal education and treatment for girls and boys, day-care centers for working...
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En esta recopilación se puede apreciar la maestría de Charlotte Perkins Gilman para el cuento corto, reflexivo y con gran conciencia social.
Textos divertidos a la par que trágicos, donde sus protagonistas deciden dar un giro a sus ideas y convicciones para asumir un papel principal en sus vidas. Toda esta obra se puede definir como un clamor hacia el feminismo que ridiculiza con grandes dosis de ironía los cánones patriarcales establecidos hacia...
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This volume collects two classic works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" - a chilling tale of descent into madness - and "What Diantha Did," an early feminist work. Also included is a rare, brief essay by Gilman on why she wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper." Gilman (1860 - 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during...
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Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perkins sends a man forward in time to a better world, but gives him deep difficulties in adjusting to it.
Herland describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict...
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