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MOVING THE MOUNTAIN HERLAND & WITH HER IN OURLA...

Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel. The book was one element in the major wave of
utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Perkins sends a man forward in time to a better world  but gives him deep
difficulties in adjusting to it. Herland 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 draws a contrast between Gilman's
idealized vision of a feminist society in Herland and the darker realities of real  outside 
male-dominated world. 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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