Charlotte Perkins Gilman Books In Order

Herland Books In Order

  1. Herland (1915)
  2. With Her in Ourland (1916)

Novels

  1. The Yellow Wallpaper (1899)
  2. The Crux (1910)
  3. What Diantha Did (1910)
  4. Moving the Mountain (1911)
  5. Benigna Machiavelli (1914)
  6. Unpunished (1997)

Omnibus

  1. The Yellow Wallpaper / Herland (2021)

Collections

  1. The Yellow Wallpaper: and Other Writings (1980)
  2. The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader (1980)
  3. Herland and Selected Stories (1992)
  4. The Yellow Wall-paper, Herland, and Selected Writings (2009)
  5. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings (2020)

Novellas

  1. If I Were a Man (1914)

Non fiction

  1. Women and Economics (1898)
  2. Concerning Children (1900)
  3. The Home, Its Work and Influence (1903)
  4. Human Work (1904)
  5. Man-made World (1911)
  6. Social Ethics (1914)
  7. His Religion and Hers (1923)
  8. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935)
  9. The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1994)
  10. A Journey from Within (1995)

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Herland

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG This is written from memory, unfortunately. If I could have brought with me the material I so carefully prepared, this would be a very different story. Whole books full of notes, carefully copied records, firsthand descriptions, and the pictures that’s the worst loss. We had some bird’s eyes of the cities and parks; a lot of lovely views of streets, of buildings, outside and in, and some of those gorgeous gardens, and, most important of all, of the women themselves. Nobody will ever believe how they looked. Descriptions aren’t any good when it comes to women, and I never was good at descriptions anyhow. But it’s got to be done somehow; the rest of the world needs to know about that country. I haven’t said where it was for fear some self appointed missionaries, or traders, or land greedy expansionists, will take it upon themselves to push in. They will not be wanted, I can tell them that, and will fare worse than we did if they do find it.

With Her in Ourland

Two works in one, this volume contains the full text of With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as an illuminating sociological analysis by Mary Jo Deegan with the assistance of Michael R. Hill. Ourland is the sequel to Gilman’s acclaimed feminist utopian novel Herland; both were published in her journal, The Forerunner, in 1915 and 1916. Ourland resumes the adventures of IHerland R’s protagonists, Ellador and Van, but turns from utopian fantasy to a challenging analysis of contemporary social fissures in his land, or the real world. The republication of Herland as a separate novel in 1979 revived critical interest in Gilman’s work but truncated the larger aims implicit in the IHerland/Ourland R saga, leaving an erroneous understanding of Gilman’s other/better half of the story, in which it is suggested that strong women can resocialize men to be nurturant and cooperative. Gilman’s choice of a sexually integrated society in With Her in Ourland provides us with her answer to her ideal society, but her foray into a woman only society as a corrective to a male dominated one is a controversial option. The challenging message of Ourland, however, does not impede the pleasure of reading it as a novel. Though known more for her fiction today, Gilman in her time was a recognized and accomplished sociologist who admired Lester F. Ward and frequently visited Jane Addams of Chicago’s Hull House. The male protagonist in Herland/Ourland, Van, is a sociologist, used by Gilman as a foil on which to skewer the assumptions and practices of patriarchal sociology. The interpretation presented here, which adopts a sociological viewpoint, is invaluable reading for scholars and students of sociology, American women’s studies, and utopian literature.

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper‘ is a 6,000 word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was first published in 1891 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women’s physical and mental health. The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries. The narrator is a woman whose husband a physician has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal entries from him so that she can recuperate from what he has diagnosed as a ‘temporary nervous depression a slight hysterical tendency;’ a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house. The story illustrates the effect of confinement on the narrator’s mental health, and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the room’s wallpaper. ‘It is the strangest yellow, that wall paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. But there is something else about that paper the smell!…
The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell.’ Quote from wikipedia. orgAbout the AuthorCharlotte Perkins Gilman July 3, 1860 August 17, 1935 was a prominent American poet, non fiction writer, short story writer, novelist, lecturer, and social reformer. She is best remembered today for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, based on her own bout with severe depression.

The Crux

Long out of print, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel The Crux is an important early feminist work that brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. First published serially in the feminist journal The Forerunner in 1910, The Crux tells the story of a group of New England women who move west to start a boardinghouse for men in Colorado. The innocent central character, Vivian Lane, falls in love with Morton Elder, who has both gonorrhea and syphilis. The concern of the novel is not so much that Vivian will catch syphilis, but that, if she were to marry and have children with Morton, she would harm the ‘national stock.’ The novel was written, in Gilman s words, as a ‘story…
for young women to read…
in order that they may protect themselves and their children to come.’ What was to be protected was the civic imperative to produce ‘pureblooded’ citizens for a utopian ideal. Dana Seitler s introduction provides historical context, revealing The Crux as an allegory for social and political anxieties including the rampant insecurities over contagion and disease in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. Seitler highlights the importance of The Crux to understandings of Gilman s body of work specifically and early feminism more generally. She shows how the novel complicates critical history by illustrating the biological argument undergirding Gilman s feminism. Indeed, The Crux demonstrates how popular conceptions of eugenic science were attractive to feminist authors and intellectuals because they suggested that ideologies of national progress and U.S. expansionism depended as much on women and motherhood as on masculine contest.

What Diantha Did

This edition of What Diantha Did makes newly available Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s first novel, complete with an in depth introduction. First published serially in Gilman’s magazine the Forerunner in 1909 10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fianca to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful hero*ine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, restaurant, and hotel. By assigning a cash value to women’s ‘invisible’ work, providing a means for the well being and moral uplift of working girls, and releasing middle and leisure class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping. In her introduction to the novel, Charlotte J. Rich highlights Gilman’s engagement with such hotly debated Progressive Era issues as the ‘servant question,’ the rise of domestic science, and middle class efforts to protect and uplift the working girl. She illuminates the novel’s connections to Gilman’s other feminist works, including ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Herland; to her personal life; and to her commitment to women’s social and economic freedom. Rich contends that the novel’s engagement with class and race makes it particularly significant to the newly complex understanding of Gilman that has emerged in recent scholarship. What Diantha Did provides essential insight into Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s important legacy of social thought.

Moving the Mountain

Publisher: Charlton company Publication date: 1911 Subjects: Utopias History / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Women Authors Philosophy / History

Unpunished

Written in the late 1920s and never before published, this mystery by the author of such early feminist classics as The Yellow Wall Paper is a major literary find. Gilman’s first and only detective novel recounts the murder of a pernicious attorney who has been shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, strangled and poisoned. The husband and wife detective team present a model of true partnership, while the unfolding details of the case offer poignant evidence of the injustice that poor and powerless women can suffer at the hands of a brutal man. Gilman weaves her case for women’s freedom and empowerment into a mystery rich in twists and turns, colorful characters, red herrings, suspense and wry humor.

The Yellow Wallpaper: and Other Writings

Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall paper’ has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, as a prisoner in her own bedroom. Never before, however, has the story itself been portrayed as victimized. In this first critical edition of Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall paper,’ accompanied by contemporary reviews and previously unpublished letters, Julie Bates Dock examines the various myth frames that have been used to legitimize Gilman’s story. The editor discusses how modern feminist critics’ readings and misreadings of the available documents uphold a set of legends that originated with Gilman herself and that promulgate an almost saintly view of the pioneering feminist author. The documents made available in the collection enable scholars and students to evaluate firsthand Gilman’s claims regarding the story’s impact on its first audiences. Dock presents an authoritative text of ‘The Yellow Wall paper’ for the first time since its initial publication. Included are a textual commentary, full descriptions of all relevant texts, lists of editorial emendations and pre copy text substantive variants, a complete historical collation that documents all the variants found in important editions after 1892, and a listing of textual sources for more than one hundred reprintings of the story in anthologies and textbooks. Other documents in the casebook that illuminate the story’s publication and reception histories include Gilman’s successive and varying accounts of the story’s history, her diary and manuscript log entries and letters pertaining to the story, W. D. Howells’s correspondence with Gilman and Horace Scudder, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and his remarks on the story when he reprinted it in Great American Short Stories, and more than two dozen reviews of the story by Gilman’s contemporaries. Taken together, the criticism, text, documents, and annotations constitute a rich and valuable contribution to Gilman scholarship, calling into question the feminist literary criticism that has helped to shape interpretations of a literary masterpiece.

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader is an anthology of fiction by one of America’s most important feminist writers. Probably best known as the author of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry, Gilman wrote numerous other short stories and novels reflecting her radical socialist and feminist view of turn of the century America. Collected here by the noted Gilman scholar Ann J. Lane are eighteen stories and fragments, including a selection from Herland, Gilman’s novel of a feminist utopia. The resulting anthology provides a provocative blueprint to Gilman’s intellectual and creative production.

Herland and Selected Stories

A collection of stories by the author of The Yellow Wallpaper features the complete text of ”Herland” and such short stories as ”Mrs. Elder’s Idea” and ”The Unexpected.”

The Yellow Wall-paper, Herland, and Selected Writings

A superb collection of fiction and poetry from a major feminist voice in American literature Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustration 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 cunning, wry novel that imagines a peaceful, progressive, environmentally conscious country from which men have been absent for two thousand years. Both are included in this volume, along with a selection of Gilman’s major short stories and her poems.

Women and Economics

When Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women’s movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. Yet by the mid 1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was long out of print. Revived here with new introduction, Gilman’s pivotal work remains a benchmark feminist text that anticipates many of the issues and thinkers of 1960s and resonates deeply with today’s continuing debate about gender difference and inequality. Gilman’s ideas represent an integration of socialist thought and Darwinian theory and provide a welcome disruption of the nearly all male canon of American economic and social thought. She stresses the connection between work and home and between public and private life; anticipates the 1960s debate about wages for housework; calls for extensive childcare facilities and parental leave policies; and argues for new housing arrangements with communal kitchens and hired cooks. She contends that women’s entry into the public arena and the reforms of the family would be a win win situation for both women and men as the public sphere would no longer be deprived of women’s particular abilities, and men would be able to enlarge the possibilities to experience and express the emotional sustenance of family life. The thorough and stimulating introduction by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson provides substantial information about Gilman’s life, personality, and background. It frames her impact on feminism since the Sixties and establishes her crucial role in the emergence of feminist and social thought.

Concerning Children

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. TWO AND TWO TOGETHER. ‘ TF not trained to obedience, what shall Athe child be trained to?’ naturally demands the outraged parent. To inculcate that first of virtues has taken so much time and effort that we have overlooked the subsequent qualities which require our help, and feel rather at sea when this sheet anchor is taken from us. But it is not so hard a problem, when honestly faced. A child has a body and a mind to be nourished, sheltered, protected, allowed to grow, and judiciously trained. We are here considering the brain training ; but that is safely comparable to is, indeed, part of the body training, for the brain as much as the lungs or liver is an organ of the body. In training the little body, our main line of duty is to furnish proper food, to insure proper rest, and to allow and encourage proper exercise. Exactly this is wanted to promote right brain growth. We do not wish to overstim ulate the brain, to develope it at the expenseof other organs; but we do wish to insure its full natural growth ‘and to promote its natural activities by a wise selection of the highest qualities for preferred use. And we need more knowledge of the various brain functions than is commonly possessed by those in charge of young children. The office of the brain we are here considering is to receive, retain, and collate impressions, and, in retaining them, to hold their original force as far as possible, so that the ultimate act, coming from a previous impression, may have the force of the original impulse. The human creature does not originate nervous energy; but he does secrete it, so to speak, from the impact of natural forces. He has a storage battery of power we call the will. By this high faculty we see a well developed human being working steadily for a des…

The Home, Its Work and Influence

‘Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Home is a scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century. Her central argument, that the economic independence and specialization of women is essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement’ resonates in this work. Throughout, she maintains that the liberation of women and of children and of men, for that matter requires getting women out of the house, both practically and ideologically. AltaMira Press is proud to reprint this provocative work and introduce Charlotte Perkins Gilman to a new generation of students and feminist scholars.’

Human Work

Human Work represents the first ground breaking analysis on the equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. Noted feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman maintains the notion that it was ‘sexuo economic oppression of women’ and not women’s biology that kept women from achieving in all areas of work. Accusing men of appropriating certain work as ‘men’s work’ and masking the process as a biological locus rather than an exercise in power relations, Gilman asserts that men created an economic dependence that has prevented women from success in the workplace. Introduced by noted scholars Michael Kimmel and Mary Moynihan, Human Work is necessary reading for anyone interested in power and gender structures in the workplace.

Man-made World

From Content:

‘Let us begin, inoffensively, with sheep. The sheep is a beast with which we are all familiar, being much used in religious imagery; the common stock of painters; a staple article of diet; one of our main sources of clothing; and an everyday symbol of bashfulness and stupidity.

In some grazing regions the sheep is an object of terror, destroying grass, bush and forest by omnipresent nibbling; on the great plains, sheep keeping frequently results in insanity, owing to the loneliness of the shepherd, and the monotonous appearance and behavior of the sheep.

By the poet, young sheep are preferred, the lamb gambolling gaily; unless it be in hymns, where ‘all we like sheep’ are repeatedly described, and much stress is laid upon the straying propensities of the animal.

To the scientific mind there is special interest in the sequacity of sheep, their habit of following one another with automatic imitation. This instinct, we are told, has been developed by ages of wild crowded racing on narrow ledges, along precipices, chasms, around sudden spurs and corners, only the leader seeing when, where and how to jump. If those behind jumped exactly as he did, they lived. If they stopped to exercise independent judgment, they were pushed off and perished; they and their judgment with them.

All these things, and many that are similar, occur to us when we think of sheep. They are also ewes and rams. Yes, truly; but what of it? All that has been said was said of sheep, genus ovis, that bland beast, compound of mutton, wool, and foolishness so widely known. If we think of the sheep dog and dog ess, the shepherd and shepherd ess, of the ferocious sheep eating bird of New Zealand, the Kea and Kea ess, all these herd, guard, or kill the sheep, both rams and ewes alike. In regard to mutton, to wool, to general character, we think only of their sheepishness, not at all of their ramishness or eweishness. That which is ovine or bovine, canine, feline or equine, is easily recognized as distinguishing that particular species of animal, and has no relation whatever to the sex thereof.

Returning to our muttons, let us consider the ram, and wherein his character differs from the sheep. We find he has a more quarrelsome disposition. He paws the earth and makes a noise. He has a tendency to butt. So has a goat Mr. Goat. So has Mr. Buffalo, and Mr. Moose, and Mr. Antelope. This tendency to plunge head foremost at an adversary and to find any other gentleman an adversary on sight evidently does not pertain to sheep, to genus ovis; but to any male creature with horns.

As ‘function comes before organ,’ we may even give a reminiscent glance down the long path of evolution, and see how the mere act of butting passionately and perpetually repeated born of the belligerent spirit of the male produced horns!

The ewe, on the other hand, exhibits love and care for her little ones, gives them milk and tries to guard them. But so does a goat Mrs. Goat. So does Mrs. Buffalo and the rest. Evidently this mother instinct is no peculiarity of genus ovis, but of any female creature.

Even the bird, though not a mammal, shows the same mother love and mother care, while the father bird, though not a butter, fights with beak and wing and spur. His competition is more effective through display. The wish to please, the need to please, the overmastering necessity upon him that he secure the favor of the female, has made the male bird blossom like a butterfly. He blazes in gorgeous plumage, rears haughty crests and combs, shows drooping wattles and dangling blobs such as the turkey cock affords; long splendid feathers for pure ornament appear upon him; what in her is a mere tail effect becomes in him a mass of glittering drapery.’

Social Ethics

First serialized in 1914, Social Ethics attempts to convince readers that individualist ethics have failed to make the world a safe place for children, and that we cannot progress to a fully Social Ethics unless we understand the morality of collective action from a specifically sociological point of view. Gilman argues that in order to be fully progressive, ethics must shift from its traditional focus on individual behaviors to the structure, morality, and outcomes of social or group actions. The social ills she addresses in her attempt to advocate for a reexamination of our ethics include topics still relevant today: militarism, waste, religious intolerance, conspicuous consumption, greed, graft, environmental degradation, preventable diseases, and patriarchal oppression in its numerous manifestations. Hill and Deegan’s purpose in recovering this forcefully argued book from obscurity is to show not only that Gilman’s central arguments remain largely valid and cogent today, but also that Gilman is a major and substantive contributor to the shape and importance of sociology in its formative years. Traditional ethics, Gilman argues, fail to resolve the enduring problems facing society because our received ethical systems are invariably and mistakenly founded on individualist rather than social logics. The shape of our collective future, if it is to be progressive and morally responsible, depends fundamentally on adopting a sociological perspective, and our guiding principle must be to make the world a safe and nurturing place for babies and children. Anything less, in Gilman’s view, is morally degenerate. In their carefully considered introduction, Hill and Deegan locate Gilman’s personal and professional sociological identity within a network of influential and collegial sociologists, and relate Social Ethics to Gilman’s interests in evolutionary thought, Fabian economics, feminist pragmatism, and the cognate work of Thorstein Veblen. The publication of Social Ethics in book form recovers an important theoretical treatise for a new generation of students, scholars, and fans of Gilman’s Herland/Ourland saga.

His Religion and Hers

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s His Religion and Hers is a brave critique of organized religion and the consequences that a male constructed religion has on everyday life. She suggests that through the development of secular ethics, religion can be directed not to the anticipation of a mythical afterlife, but instead to the transformation of the present. Courageously questioning why ‘neither religion, morality, nor ethics has made us good,’ she demonstrates the ways in which a male driven ideology has produced a religion focused on death and discourages any attention to the improvement of life on earth. Offering new thoughts that advocate a collective change of view, this volume delves intensively into religion and the influence of gender. Coming generations will welcome this new edition of His Religion and Hers, now with an introduction by noted scholar Michael S. Kimmel.

The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1869 1935 was one of the leading intellectuals of the American women’s movement in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Moving beyond the struggle for suffrage, Gilman confronted an even larger problem economic and social discrimination against women. Her book, Women and Economics, published in 1898, was repeatedly printed and translated into seven languages. She was a tireless traveler, lecturer, and writer and is perhaps best known for her dramatic short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’ Gilman’s autobiography gives us access to the life of a remarkable and courageous woman.
Originally published in 1935, soon after Gilman’s death, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman has been out of print for several years. This edition includes a new introduction by Gilman’s noted biographer, Anne J. Lane.

The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

One of the leading intellectuals of first wave feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860 1935 was a prolific socialist writer and lecturer. Nearly forgotten in the years following her death, she has been the subject of renewed interest and appreciation in recent decades. Drawing from her previous two volume edition of The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, editor Denise D. Knight here makes available a streamlined version of Gilman’s extensive personal diaries and journals, with representative selections from various periods of her life. Included in this single volume are entries written between 1 January 1879 and 12 March 1935. These selections illustrate Gilman’s development from a restless, high spirited, and opinionated young woman to a mature, internationally known author and lecturer whose words touched thousands as she worked to effect social change.

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