num_pages: 208
description: THE 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, including a selection from Herland, Gilman's feminist Utopia. The resulting anthology provides a provocative blueprint to Gilman's intellectual and creative production.The yellow wallpaper, When I was a witch, If I were a man, The girl in the pink hat, The cottagette, The unnatural mother, Making a change, An honest woman, Turned, The widow's might, Mr. Peebles' heart, The crux, What Diantha did, Benigna Machiavelli, Unpunished, Moving the mountain, Herland, With her in Ourland.
language: English
title: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman reader: The yellow wallpaper, and other fiction
titlecomplete: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman reader: The yellow wallpaper, and other fiction
genres: Fiction, Feminism, Short Stories
ratings_count: 163
publisher: Pantheon Books