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Herland
From: Herizons
Date: 20041001
Author:Kauder, Stacey-reviewer; Gilman, Elizabeth P
by Elizabeth Perkins Gilman
Have you ever envisioned a country solely inhabited and ruled by women? Well, in 1915 Charlotte Perkins Gilman did. Perkins created an idealized land in her utopian story Herland, giving women the foundation, history and conceptualization of a land in female resplendence.
In Herland, Gilman, a renowned suffragette, writer, publisher and activist, envisioned a super race of women freed from the "straitjacket" of the nuclear family. She populated her "woman country" with an "army of women": strong, athletic, self-reliant women who were unafraid, assured and ...
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