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Dover Thrift Editions [More in this series]

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A prominent turn-of-the-century social critic and lecturer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is perhaps best known for her short story ""The Yellow Wallpaper,"" a chilling study of a woman's descent into insanity, and Women and Economics, a classic of feminist theory that analyzes the destructive effects of women's economic reliance on men.In Herland, a vision of a feminist utopia, Gilman employs humor to engaging effect in a story about three male explorers who stumble upon an all-female society isolated somewhere in South America. Noting the advanced state of the civilization they've encountered, th

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English

Contents

Title Page; Bibliographical Note; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Note; CHAPTER ONE - A NOT UNNATURAL ENTERPRISE; CHAPTER TWO - RASH ADVANCES; CHAPTER THREE - A PECULIAR IMPRISONMENT; CHAPTER FOUR - OUR VENTURE; CHAPTER FIVE - A UNIQUE HISTORY; CHAPTER SIX - COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS; CHAPTER SEVEN - OUR GROWING MODESTY; CHAPTER EIGHT - THE GIRLS OF HERLAND; CHAPTER NINE - OUR RELATIONS AND THEIRS; CHAPTER TEN - THEIR RELIGIONS AND OUR MARRIAGES; CHAPTER ELEVEN - OUR DIFFICULTIES; CHAPTER TWELVE - EXPELLED

ISBN

0-486-11506-2

OCLC

868276648

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