Sign-In
Cart
Herland: A Feminist Utopian Classic of Gender, Society, and an All-Female World
Paperback
Science FictionClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Curated Collection Publishing
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What would civilization look like if women built it entirely on their own terms?
In Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines one of the most provocative utopian worlds in classic literature: an isolated country populated only by women, where peace, cooperation, education, motherhood, and social responsibility have shaped an advanced and harmonious society.
When three male explorers discover this hidden civilization, they arrive with all the assumptions of their own world. They expect weakness, dependence, competition, jealousy, and disorder. Instead, they find a highly organized culture without poverty, war, exploitation, or traditional gender roles. As the visitors struggle to understand Herland and the women who live there, their own ideas about masculinity, femininity, marriage, family, progress, and power are challenged at every turn.
First published in 1915, Herland is a landmark feminist utopian novel that remains strikingly readable, imaginative, and relevant. Blending adventure, satire, social criticism, and speculative fiction, Gilman uses the idea of an all-female society to ask bold questions about the world we accept as normal. Are inequality and violence inevitable? Are gender roles natural, or taught? What might humanity become if care, intelligence, and cooperation were placed at the center of civilization?
Smart, sharp, and often surprisingly funny, Herland is both a product of its time and a visionary challenge to it. More than a century after its publication, it continues to speak to readers interested in feminism, utopian fiction, gender studies, classic literature, and stories that imagine society differently.
This edition is ideal for readers discovering Charlotte Perkins Gilman for the first time, as well as students, teachers, collectors, and fans of classic speculative fiction.
Thoughtfully prepared with a clean, readable interior and a professionally designed cover, this edition presents Herlandfor modern readers while preserving the power, intelligence, and originality of Gilman's unforgettable vision.
Also in
Classic Fiction
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Goldman, William
Paperback
The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paperback
The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by the Author: Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Hardcover
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Goldman, William
Hardcover
The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (Revised and easy-to-read)
Bunyan, John
Vermilye, Alan
Paperback
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Shelley, Mary
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Paperback
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Goldman, William
Paperback