Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
On the eve of World War I, three American male explorers stumble onto an all-female society somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth. Unable to believe their eyes, they promptly set out to find some men, convinced that, since “this is a civilized country…there must be men.”
So begins this sparkling utopian novel, a romp through the whole world of “masculine” and “feminine,” as on target today as when it was written sixty-five years ago.
On the eve of World War I, three American male explorers stumble onto an all-female society somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth. Unable to believe their eyes, they promptly set out to find some men, convinced that, since “this is a civilized country…there must be men.”
So begins this sparkling utopian novel, a romp through the whole world of “masculine” and “feminine,” as on target today as when it was written sixty-five years ago.
On the eve of World War I, three American male explorers stumble onto an all-female society somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth. Unable to believe their eyes, they promptly set out to find some men, convinced that, since “this is a civilized country…there must be men.”
So begins this sparkling utopian novel, a romp through the whole world of “masculine” and “feminine,” as on target today as when it was written sixty-five years ago.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), humanist, wrote books on history, anthropology, ethics, and philosophy, as well as poetry, novels, satire, and social commentary. She devoted her life to lecturing and writing in order to persuade a vast audience of the feasibility of her feminist-socialist vision.
