Table of Contents

• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction – Val Gough and Jill Rudd
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Journey from Within – Mary A. Hill
• Rewriting Male Myths: Herland and the Utopian Tradition – Chris Ferns
• Pockets of Resistance: Some Notes Towards an Exploration of Gender and Genre Boundaries in Herland – Bridget Bennett
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Women’s Health: ‘The Long Limitation’ – Janet Beer
• The Sins of the Innocent: Breaking the Barriers of Role Conflict – Anne E. Tanski
• Utopian Fictions and Political Theories: Domestic Labour in the Work of Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Willaim Morris – Ruth Levitas
• Gender and Industry in Herland: Tress as a Means of Production and Metaphor – Alex Shishin
• Herland: Definitive Ecofeminist Fiction? – Amanda Graham
• ‘In the Twinkling of an Eye: Gilman’s Utopian Imagination – Val Gough
• ‘Once There Was a Pig... Does not Interest’: Gilman’s Desire for Narrative Control – Jill Rudd
• Spinster of Dreams, Weaver of Realities – Anne Cranny-Francis
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Val Gough is lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. Jill Rudd is lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool.