CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935), humanist, wrote books of history, anthropology, ethics, and philosophy, as well as poetry, novels, satire, and social commentary. She devoted her life to lecturing and writing in order to persuade a vast audience of the feasibility of her feminist-socialist vision.
“Herland is utopia with a smile, a gently, witty version of what
women can be. As fascinating to women for what it omits entirely as
for what it discovers and invents for us, it is a fast and
invigorating read. Herland’s real power now, as when it was
published over sixty years ago, lies in its openness to what can
still happen to us. Probably the most exciting portrayal is the
strength of motherhood divorced from the nuclear family.” —Marge
Piercy
“Cheers to Ann Lane for rescuing this delightful fantasy from
obscurity. Gilman not only presents a charming/rational vision, but
she exposes the absurdities of sexism in a way that still stings
after half a century. If the utopias a society produced are any
index of its ills, then Herland nails our own.” —Alix Kates
Shulman
“Herland is pure delight. Those who know “The Yellow Wallpaper” but
little else of Gilman’s life will be thrilled. What a serendipitous
discovery!” —Susan Brownmiller
“It’s delightful to have Herland out in book form at last (after a
sixty-five-year wait)! It’s a lovely, funny book. There is a
wonderful flavor of Golden Age science fiction, which adds to the
fun and doesn’t in the least spoil the argument, which is still
fresh and very much of today.” —Joanna Russ
“Herland has always been the most endearing of utopian fantasies.
It has also been, like that exploration of equality between the
sexes that it projected, unavailable to the general reader. It is a
joy to have it now in print. Generations of young women and men
will be happier for the reading—and perhaps acting out—of some of
its scenes.” —Eve Merriam
“An astonishingly readable proto-Ectopian novel, presaging themes
of resurgent matriarchy that are getting much attention these
days—a good-humored and thought-provoking look at what a literally
Amazonian society might be like if no members of ‘the violent sex’
had been around for 2,000 years.” —Ernest Callenbach
“In Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman leaves the brooding spirit of
“The Yellow Wallpaper” behind and gives us a robust vision of a
feminist utopia—merrily exposing and exploding the conventions of
patriarchy all along the way.” —Pamela Daniels
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