![]() ![]() Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins. Materials originally published alongside Herland in 1915, many of which have never before been republished, are also included, as is an excerpt from the sequel, With Her in Ourland. Download the free PDF, epub, or Kindle ebook of Herland. ![]() Stories, poetry, and nonfiction writing by Gilman on topics such as birth control, capital punishment, and eugenics provide a rich context for the novel. This edition reproduces the text originally published in The Forerunner in 1915, including several passages omitted from other editions. As the explorers study Herland culture, they also rethink their own. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a satirical utopian novel about a world in which women wield absolute power, demonstrating their own personal and cultural identities without fear of reprieve. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Initially skeptical, the explorers come to realize that Herland has evolved into an ideal, cooperative, matriarchal society-fertile, peaceful, and clean-by selectively reproducing the women's best attributes. Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's provocative utopian novel Herland, first published in 1915, tells its story through the observations of three male explorers who discover a land inhabited solely by women the women reproduce through parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). ![]()
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