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Mar 02, 2021 | ISBN 9780593231258 Pre-Order
Mar 02, 2021 | ISBN 9780593230343 Pre-Order
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Mar 02, 2021 | ISBN 9780593230343
"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver."–Charlotte Perkins GilmanCharlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), a leading figure in the women’s movement of the early twentieth century, is a pillar of the American feminist canon. This edition of her work includes her best-known story, "The Yellow Wall-paper," a terrifying tale about a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the "rest cure" she is ordered to follow by her doctor to relieve her postpartum depression. Also included is a wide range of other short stories; an abridged version of her little-known but brilliant utopian novel, Herland, about a peaceful all-female world; and selections from her landmark treatise, Women and Economics, first published in 1898 to universal acclaim.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist, author, critic, and theorist, was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson, gave birth to a daughter the following year, and was subsequently overcome by bouts of depression,… More about Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The most original and challenging mind which the [women’s] movement produced."–Carrie Chapman Catt
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