Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: e-artnow
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788026835967
• Artikelnr.: 43121859

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) stands as a seminal figure in American literature and feminist thought. A writer, lecturer, and social reformer, Gilman's body of work traverses fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, comprising an articulate vision of women's rights and societal reform. Gilman is perhaps most renowned for 'The Herland Trilogy,' which includes 'Moving the Mountain' (1911), 'Herland' (1915), and 'With Her in Ourland' (1916). These works epitomize utopian feminist literature, delineating a vision of a world where gender equality prevails. 'Herland,' the centerpiece, envisions an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce through parthenogenesis, exploring themes of gender, culture, and education. Gilman's writing is characterized by its daring reformist ideas and its clear, persuasive, and accessible style. Beyond these utopian works, Gilman's short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1892) remains a core text in the study of American literature and gender studies, illustrating her profound concern with the oppressive roles prescribed to women in the 19th-century patriarchal society. Gilman's work presaged future feminist scholarship and continues to inspire readers with its progressive ideas and its challenge to social norms. She remains a cornerstone of American feminist literary tradition, her works serving as essential readings for an understanding of early feminist thought and the advancement of women's rights.