The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings

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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 the noted Gilman scholar Ann J. Lane are eighteen stories and fragments, including a selection from Herland, Gilman’s novel of a feminist utopia. The resulting anthology provides a provocative blueprint to Gilman’s intellectual and creative production.
Content:

The yellow wallpaper
If I were a man
Turned
The cottagette
An honest woman
Making a change
Mr. Peebles’ heart
The widow’s might
Selections from Herland
Selections from Women and economics : a study of the economic relation between men and women
Selections from The man-made world : our androcentric culture.