About this title: Written in 1915, Gilman's "lost" classic of a femininst utopian society founded on the values of nurturing, cooperation, learning, and motherhood was never issued as a complete work until 1979. Noted anthologist Solomon has accumulated a remarkable collection of Gilman's fiction which includes the complete text of Herland and 20 other stories.
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Edition: 10th
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classic, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780451525628ISBN:0451525620
Description: Good+ As issued No Jacket. Includes the story the Yellow Wallpaper. Spine creases, cover creases, some notes on the early pages of the book(not the text itself), and other light to moderate shopwear. read more
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"What would happen in a world without men? Apparently the women would cut their hair short, keep cats, and forget entirely about sex. Well, two out of three isn't bad, given that this book was written in the early twentieth century. I was hoping for some nice blend of laughable and illuminating (Gilman's Women and Economics, from fifteen years or so earlier, is excellent), but it's a little boring and the plot development, although somewhat laughable, is mostly just painful. For turn-of-the-century utopian speculative fiction, I'd still recommend Bellamy's Looking Backward."
"i enjoyed the ideas around a country run by and full of only women... it gave us a lot of credit. it made me think of some of the ways society pits women against women (a great quote in the book made when the men "discover" herland and are wondering about how it would work: "These are just women, and mothers, and where there's motherhood you don't find sisterhood-not much." So interesting because recently I have seen many articles on that very problem -- mothers being the most judgmental of other mothers.) i took this is book as a more philosophical/sociologic look at sexism and feminism so was not bothered by the characters being more like caricatures. So if you liked Candid by Voltaire and enjoy feminist philosophy, it's worth the read (it does get a bit boring by the end)"
"i feel like, as a lady, i should like this more. i thought it was okay; i liked some of the gentle satire poked at recontextualizing the things we take for granted about our society, which is supposed to make us laugh and blush. but i think i would go mad here. its a little too wide-eyed stepford wives-y for me. and in a land without men, who would i get to boss around? i just dont think this has aged well, overall, and im not sure why i was under the impression that it was some seminal work that i had to read during my summer of overlooked classics."
"What would the world be like if there were no men? In Gilman's vision, it would be perfect. This is an interesting story: Part utopian novel and part Victorian-era travelogue. But what I enjoyed is Gilman's insight into love, lust, competition verses cooperation and the relationships between men and women. Published in 1915, Gilman gently discusses these issues without using the blunt vocabulary one would find in a similar book published today. What the discussion lacked is depth, though she achieves much in her brevity. In Gilman's defense, the story isn't intended to be a treatise on gender roles, but a vision of society void of men.
After more than a year of living in Herland, the narrator, a man, says, "We were now well used to seeing women not as females, but as people; people of all sorts, doing every kind of work." A revelation, sadly, that nearly 100 years later we still haven't fully achieved."
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