Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I think I am going to change her class to 20th Century American lit and have her read The Yellow Wallpaper 1899 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which is about a woman whose husband forces her to stay in an attic room to rest and recuperate from a depression, but the confinement and enforced leisure drive her mad.

Help me out: Book for Roo 2009

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of the leading feminist intellectuals at the turn of the twentieth century, noted that human beings were the only species in which “an entire sex lives in a relation of economic dependence upon the other sex.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

But Esme – which took as its subject a murky little corner of 20th-century history in which "ungovernable" women were shut away in asylums, and drew on the work of Frances Hodgson Burnett and Charlotte Perkins Gilman – garnered critical approval and earned her glowing comparisons with Rebecca West and Katherine Mansfield.

The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell 2010

Book groups with members short on time can pick a short story to discuss instead of an entire book: there is more of real life in one story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie or Charlotte Perkins Gilman or Allan Sillitoe than many novels can pull out in 400 pages.

Nina Sankovitch: No Time to Read? Go Short 2009

Although she did not deliberately or consciously try to extend Stanton's line of reasoning, Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagined an all-female society, Herland, in which women and their daughters

Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

As pioneer feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a descendant of the Protestant theologian Lyman Beecher, put it: "The Devil is a necessary component in male religion because a God without an adversary is inconceivable to the masculine mind."

Do We Need Satan? 2008

Open the pages of Herland and you step into a utopian world created by Charlotte Perkins Gilman where feminist issues are raised at a time when they were quite controversial and in some ways, still are.

Quality and Zen 2007

Author and feminist theorist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jane Addams Hamington, Maurice 2007

Addams 'malaise took on the characteristics of the unidentified illness that her later acquaintance, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (as described in The Yellow Wallpaper) suffered.

Jane Addams Hamington, Maurice 2007

The Yellow Wallpaper is a scary short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman about a woman who is confined to her room by her husband.

2007 August | Scary For Kids 2007