A superb collection of fiction and poetry from a major voice in American feminism and
literature 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 2 000 years.
Both are included in this volume along with a selection of Gilman's major short stories and
her poems.
