The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings

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M CLASSIC « A BANTAM CLASSIC « A BANTAM CLASSIC ¦ A BANTAM CLASSIC * A BANTAM CLASSI Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow WalIpapert Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work. In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startiing vision to suggest how women's "place" in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman's The Man-Mode World: Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, Women andEconomics, which was translated into seven languages and establislYed her international reputation as a theorist. Alsó included is a delightful excerptfrom Gilman's utópián növel, Herland, an acidly funny tale about three American male explorers who stumble into... Tovább

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M CLASSIC « A BANTAM CLASSIC « A BANTAM CLASSIC ¦ A BANTAM CLASSIC * A BANTAM CLASSI Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow WalIpapert Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work. In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startiing vision to suggest how women's "place" in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman's The Man-Mode World: Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, Women andEconomics, which was translated into seven languages and establislYed her international reputation as a theorist. Alsó included is a delightful excerptfrom Gilman's utópián növel, Herland, an acidly funny tale about three American male explorers who stumble into an all-female society and begin their odyssey by insisting, "This is a civilized country...there must be men" Gilman's analyses of economic and women's issues are as incisive and relevant today as they were upon their originál publication. This volume is an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover a powerful American writer. Novelist and short story writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of Leaving Brooklyn, Disturbances in the Field, Rough Strife, and The Melting Pof and Other Subversive Stories. Vissza