Comments on: Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland

By: SilverSeason

SilverSeason — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 20:21:09 +0000

Thank you for the information. I’ll look into it.

By: Stanley Sokolow

Stanley Sokolow — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:48:31 +0000

Gilman published a sequel, With Her In Ourland, in which she takes us through the world outside of Herland with a Herland woman and her husband to analyze the social ills at her time, especially in the USA. She prescribes solutions to the “symptoms”. All of Gilman’s novels at Feedbooks are free to download from here: http://www.feedbooks.com/author/918 .

By: Feminist Classics « Silver Threads

Feminist Classics « Silver Threads — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:29:57 +0000

[...] Last year I enjoyed joining in the discussions at the Year of Feminist Classics blog. Among others we discussed John Stuart Mills’ The Subjection of Women, Mary Wollstonecrafts’ A Vindication of the Rights of Women and Charlotte Gilman Perkins’ Herland. [...]

By: What I Read in April 2011 « Silver Threads

What I Read in April 2011 « Silver Threads — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:02:12 +0000

[...] Perkins Gilman, Herland. This feminist utopian novel is being read as part of the year-long project to read Feminist [...]

By: LonerGrrrl

LonerGrrrl — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:07:02 +0000

Interesting perspective about the positive portrayal of women at all stages of life – I hadn’t really picked up on that, but you’re right, men do still hold power and are deemed to have more of a useful role to play in society whatever their age, whereas women fail to matter after a certain age, but in Herland, wisdom is revered in women, not just their beauty.