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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Herland"”.
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The intellectual companion in the fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
With the exception of the "Yellow Wallpaper" and Herland, very little of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's fiction has received any critical attention. This thesis, however, explores the evolution of a possible new character type, the intellectual companion, in her lesser-studied fiction. We can trace the …
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Maids in Their-Land: A Study of the Effects of the Cult of True Womanhood on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
The "cult of true womanhood," as it came to be called by many modem day feminist critics, began in the early 1800's and thrived until it was trampled by the social and sexual revolution of the 1920's. According to the philosophy of true womanhood, the four basic feminine virtues necessary to being …
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Myths and Blueprints: Enacting Utopia through Fiction
… utopian blueprint and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland as a model of utopian myth.
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The future is Gothic: elements of Gothic in dystopian novels
… on the body in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange (1962), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised (1999). The key concerns …
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“Quality is everything” : rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement in interwar women’s literature of England, Ireland and the United States
… chapters focuses on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland, a 1915 political allegory about a nation populated only by women who have gained the ability to reproduce asexually. Gilman adopted pro-birth control language, but rejected the politically radical ideas of the early birth control movement. …
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“Quality is everything” : rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement in interwar women’s literature of England, Ireland and the United States
… chapters focuses on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland, a 1915 political allegory about a nation populated only by women who have gained the ability to reproduce asexually. Gilman adopted pro-birth control language, but rejected the politically radical ideas of the early birth control movement. …
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The evolution of feminist utopias
… feminist utopia, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, is examined in chapter one. The novel, by depicting a productive and peaceful society consisting only of women, dramatises the belief that the economic dependence of women was not only an artificial and discriminatory system but one which …