by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Die Abenteurer Terry, Jeff und Van lösen sich von ihrer Reisegruppe, um im wilden Amazonas nach einer sagenumwobenen Stadt zu suchen, in der es den Legenden nach nur Frauen geben soll. Trotz der Warnungen der Einheimischen, dass kein Mann je von dieser Suche zurückgekehrt wäre, machen sich die drei ...
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham It has been quite a few years since I read this novel, but I thought it was absolutely terrific and I remember it vividly. The story opens when the main character Philip is a lonely young boy with a club foot being raised by his aunt and uncle. As soon as he...
A neglected work by the author of 'The Yellow Wallpaper'. Opinions here are split on 'Herland', recognizing it as a seminal (uh) work of feminist thought at the start of the 20th century, and yet ultimately limited in its vision of female freedom. Too, as an adventurer's tale of Utopia, its awfully ...
Fun, classic (1915) prediction of what an all-women world would look like. I especially liked the varied reactions of the three guys who drop in on this hidden land in the mountains where women have lived on their own for millennia. Luckily for the women, they've figured out how to spontaneously con...
http://hazamiry.blogspot.com/2014/03/gender-and-utopia.html
Beating people over the head with your politics can be fun! CPG is a feminist Swift.
Rather funny. Offers good insight into some of the feminist views of the author's time. It gets just a bit didactic three quarters of the way through, but given the genre (point to prove/axe to grind), it's surprisingly readable.
I really wanted to like this book more. I admire Gilman enormously: a woman flouting society's values in turn of the century America was no joke (see House of Mirth). She thought, wrote, and lectured about women's place in society, its relationship with economics, and the crushing unfairness of it. ...
You know, I really SHOULD have liked this book. It's a classic, thought proking read. It is one of the first feminist novels, it has a special place in history.But I just COULDN'T DO IT!It's the characters. They are each of them a stereotype. THis was done on purpose, for a reason, but I didn't care...
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