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Herland Illustrated

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1728760186

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Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It was first published in monthly installments as a serial in 1915 in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916, with its sequel, With Her in Ourland beginning immediately thereafter in the January 1916 issue. The book is often considered to be the middle volume in her utopian trilogy; preceded by Moving the Mountain (1911), and followed by, With Her in Ourland (1916). It was not published in book form until 1979.

Nomination of Edward J. Flynn

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Ambassadors
ISBN : LOC:00117937276

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Also reviews activities of Mr. Flynn as Bronx County sheriff, N.Y.

Herland and Related Writings

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770483606

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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 women’s best attributes. As the explorers study Herland culture, they also rethink their own. This edition reproduces the text originally published in The Forerunner in 1915, including several passages omitted from other editions. Stories, poetry, and nonfiction writing by Gilman on topics such as birth control, capital punishment, and eugenics provide a rich context for the novel. Materials originally published alongside Herland in 1915, many of which have never before been republished, are also included, as is an excerpt from the sequel, With Her in Ourland.

This Land Is Herland

Author : Sarah Eppler Janda,Patricia Loughlin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806178592

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Since well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This Land Is Herland brings together the stories of thirteen women activists and explores their varied experiences from the territorial period to the present. Organized chronologically, the essays discuss Progressive reformer Kate Barnard, educator and civil rights leader Clara Luper, and Comanche leader and activist LaDonna Harris, as well as lesser-known individuals such as Cherokee historian and educator Rachel Caroline Eaton, entrepreneur and NAACP organizer California M. Taylor, and Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) champion Wanda Jo Peltier Stapleton. Edited by Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, the collection connects Oklahoma women’s individual and collective endeavors to the larger themes of intersectionality, suffrage, politics, motherhood, and civil rights in the American West and the United States. The historians explore how race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and political power shaped—and were shaped by—these women’s efforts to improve their local, state, and national communities. Underscoring the diversity of women’s experiences, the editors and contributors provide fresh and engaging perspectives on the western roots of gendered activism in Oklahoma. This volume expands and enhances our understanding of the complexities of western women’s history.

Herlands

Author : Keridwen N. Luis
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452957852

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How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality Women’s lands are intentional, collective communities composed entirely of women. Rooted in 1970s feminist politics, they continue to thrive in a range of ways, from urban households to isolated rural communes, providing spaces where ideas about gender, sexuality, and sociality are challenged in both deliberate and accidental ways. Herlands, a compelling ethnography of women’s land networks in the United States, highlights the ongoing relevance of these communities as vibrant cultural enclaves that also have an impact on broader ideas about gender, women’s bodies, lesbian identity, and right ways of living. As a participant-observer, Keridwen N. Luis brings unique insights to the lives and stories of the women living in these communities. While documenting the experiences of specific spaces in Massachusetts, Tennessee, New Mexico, and Ohio, Herlands also explores the history of women’s lands and breaks new ground exploring culture theory, gender theory, and how lesbian identity is conceived and constructed in North America. Luis also discusses how issues of race and class are addressed, the ways in which nudity and public hygiene challenge dominant constructions of the healthy or aging body, and the pervasive influence of hegemonic thinking on debates about transgender women. Luis finds that although changing dominant thinking can be difficult and incremental, women’s lands provide exciting possibilities for revolutionary transformation in society.

The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529042337

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The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Pdf

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s progressive views on feminism and mental health are powerfully showcased in her two most famous stories. The Yellow Wallpaper skillfully charts one woman's struggle with depression whilst Herland is an entertaining imagining of an all female utopia. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by journalist and author Lucy Mangan. Confined to her attic bedroom and isolated from her newborn baby, the nameless narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper keeps a secret diary in which she records the sprawling and shifting patterns of the room’s lurid yellow wallpaper as she slowly sinks into madness. This chilling story is based on the author’s own experience of depression. In Herland, a trio of men set out to discover an all-female community rumoured to be hidden deep in the jungle. What they find surprises them all; they’re captured by women who, for two thousand years, have lived in a peaceful and prosperous utopia without men.

Herland and Selected Stories

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698186064

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At the turn of the twentieth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a celebrity—acclaimed as a leader in the feminist movement and castigated for her divorce, her relinquishment of custody of her daughter, and her unconventional second marriage. She was also widely read, with stories in popular magazines and with dozens of books in print. Her most famous short story, the intensely personal “The Yellow Wallpaper,” was read as a horror story when first published in 1892 and then lapsed into obscurity before being rediscovered and reinterpreted by feminist scholars in the 1970s. Noted anthologist Barbara Solomon has put together a remarkable collection of Gilman’s fiction, which includes twenty short stories and the complete text of Herland, the landmark utopian novel that remained unavailable for more than sixty years. From “The Unexpected,” printed in Kate Field’s Washington in 1890, to such later tales as “Mrs. Elder’s Idea,” published in Gilman’s own periodical, The Forerunner, readers can again encounter this witty, original, and audacious woman who dared to challenge the status quo and who created fiction that continues to be fresh and timeless. Edited and with an Introduction by Barbara H. Solomon

The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic Fiction)

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547742432

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The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic Fiction) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic Fiction)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. 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, and other issues still relevant a century later. Herland is a utopian novel. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. The story is told from the perspective of Van Jennings, a student of sociology who, along with two friends, Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of unchartered land where it is rumored lives a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not really believe the rumors as they are unable to conceive of how human reproduction could occur without males. The men speculate about what a society of women would be like, each guessing differently based on the stereotype of women which he holds most dear... With Her in Ourland is the third book in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian trilogy which begins where Moving the Mountain and Herland left off. Gilman masterfully compares our real modern male dominated WORLD with an imaginary perfect society comprised of only woman. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.

The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101145029

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A collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer's most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper', Gilman also wrote Herland, a wry novel that imagines a peaceful, progressive country from which men have been absent for two thousand years. Both are included in this volume, along with a selection of Gilman's major short stories and her poems. New York Times bestselling author Kate Bolick contributes an illuminating introduction that explores Gilman's fascinating yet complicated life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic)

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026833420

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The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. 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 and domination. The story is told from the perspective of Van Jennings, a student of sociology who, along with two friends, Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of unchartered land where it is rumored lives a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not really believe the rumors as they are unable to conceive of how human reproduction could occur without males. The men speculate about what a society of women would be like, each guessing differently based on the stereotype of women which he holds most dear… With Her in Ourland draws a contrast between Gilman's idealized vision of a feminist society in Herland and the darker realities of real, outside, male-dominated world. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.

Moving the Mountain, Herland & With Her in Ourland

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547392149

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Moving the Mountain, Herland & With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Pdf

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 and domination. The story is told from the perspective of Van Jennings, a student of sociology who, along with two friends, Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of unchartered land where it is rumored lives a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not really believe the rumors as they are unable to conceive of how human reproduction could occur without males. The men speculate about what a society of women would be like, each guessing differently based on the stereotype of women which he holds most dear... With Her in Ourland draws a contrast between Gilman's idealized vision of a feminist society in Herland and the darker realities of real, outside, male-dominated world. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.

A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland"

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410348029

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A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Herland

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781365831904

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1915 Dystopian Science Fiction, Utopia We had to sleep after that long sweep through the air, but we turned out early enough next day, and again we rose softly up the height till we could top the crowning trees and see the broad fair land at our pleasure. ""Semitropical. Looks like a first-rate climate. It's wonderful what a little height will do for temperature."" Terry was studying the forest growth. ""Little height! Is that what you call little?"" I asked. Our instruments measured it clearly. We had not realized the long gentle rise from the coast perhaps. ""Mighty lucky piece of land, I call it,"" Terry pursued. ""Now for the folks-I've had enough scenery."" So we sailed low, crossing back and forth, quartering the country as we went, and studying it. We saw-I can't remember now how much of this we noted then and how much was supplemented by our later knowledge, but we could not help seeing this much, even on that excited day-a land in a state of perfect cultivation, where even the forests...

The Complete Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland & With Her in Ourland

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547756118

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The Complete Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland & With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Pdf

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 and domination. The story is told from the perspective of Van Jennings, a student of sociology who, along with two friends, Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of unchartered land where it is rumored lives a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not really believe the rumors as they are unable to conceive of how human reproduction could occur without males. The men speculate about what a society of women would be like, each guessing differently based on the stereotype of women which he holds most dear... With Her in Ourland draws a contrast between Gilman's idealized vision of a feminist society in Herland and the darker realities of real, outside, male-dominated world. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Book Analysis)

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9782808018838

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Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Book Analysis) by Bright Summaries Pdf

Unlock the more straightforward side of Herland with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which tells the story of an imagined society of women who live entirely apart from men and reproduce asexually. Their country (the Herland of the title) is harmonious and highly developed, with a strong sense of community and widespread happiness, which shocks the three men who have taken it upon themselves to visit it. This clash of cultures reveals a series of unexamined prejudices around gender and results in drastic changes in the lives of everyone involved. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is perhaps best-known for her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”; feminist critics’ interest in this text spurred a critical appraisal of the rest of her work, including Herland and its sequel With Her in Ourland. Find out everything you need to know about Herland in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!