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Herland: A Feminist Utopian Classic of Gender, Society, and an All-Female World
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Publisher: Curated Collection Publishing
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.56 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.
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