![]() ![]() ![]() Let's pretend we're in the book.’ It's using the book as sort of a design document,” says Kate White. Her progressive views on everything from postpartum depression to euthanasia to gender-neutral toys were so forward thinking, they could probably be printed in Lena Dunham’s edgy newsletter today.īut even Gilman couldn’t have foreseen that 100 years after she wrote her sci-fi novella about a feminist paradise deep in the jungle of a distant continent, the hive-mind of the internet would decide to bring it to life. Gilman, best known for her book"The Yellow Wallpaper," was a trailblazing feminist, suffragist and publisher. This is how Charlotte Perkins Gilman described the utopian all-female community "Herland" in the book of the same name, published in 1915. They were sisters, and as they grew, they grew together - not by competition, but by united action.” “They had had no kings, and no priests and no aristocracies. ![]()
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