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by: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.4
EAN: 9780486404295
ISBN: 0486404293
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: June 18, 1998
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 469571
Studio: Dover Publications
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Product Description:
Delightfully humorous account of a feminist utopia in which 3 male explorers stumble upon an all-female society isolated in a distant part of the earth. Early 20th-century vehicle for Gilman's then-unconventional views of male-female behavior, motherhood, individuality, sense of community, sexuality, and other topics. Mischievous, ironic approach used to telling effect.
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This is written from memory, unfortunately. If I could have brought with me the material I so carefully prepared, this would be a very different story. Whole books full of notes, carefully copied records, firsthand descriptions, and the pictures - that's the worst loss. We had some bird's-eyes of the cities and parks; a lot of lovely views of streets, of buildings, outside and in, and some of those gorgeous gardens, and, most important of all, of the women themselves. Nobody will ever believe how they looked. Descriptions aren't any good when it comes to women, and I never was good at descriptions anyhow. But it's got to be done somehow; the rest of the world needs to know about that country. I haven't said where it was for fear some self-appointed missionaries, or traders, or land-greedy expansionists, will take it upon themselves to push in. They will not be wanted, I can tell them that, and will fare worse than we did if they do find it.
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Rating:  - Where No Men Exist
In her novel of a positive utopia made up only of women, Gilman gives us a vision of what perfection would be like, if only the inevitable power, money and sex did not get in the way of things. In Herland, there are no men thus eliminating the sex motivations. And they live a highly socialized communal life within which most of the problems of modern society have been conquered or mastered.
The ladies of Herland have been isolated from the rest of the world for about 2000 years and ... Read More
Rating:  - Misunderstood
Obviously, many people who read this book -- including most of the reviewers here -- clearly misunderstood Gilman's tone and objective in writing "Herland." The purpose of the book is NOT to say that women are better than men in every aspect of life, or that women can survive without men. Indeed, the inhabitants of Herland realize that without males, their society is incomplete, which is why the three young women are encouraged to court the three male visitors. Gilman portrays two of her three ... Read More
Rating:  - A Little Pre-Nazi Fairy Tale
I can't believe all that is wrong with this book. If you really detest men and you haven't a clue how males think or how real societies operate, you might like this story. However, if you have even one foot in reality, you'll find it childish to the extreme.
Author's assumptions
1. Men are the root of all evil.
2. Anything men can do, women can do better (including writng utopian fantasies).
3. Men are unnatural, unnecessary, unattractive, unreformable, ... Read More
Rating: - good service
I got the book in a timely manner and it is in adequate shape
Rating: - More bourgeoise dreck
Poorly written, feminist drivel conceived by a callow, middle-class mind. It's interesting that despite Gilman's righteous call for equality, she couldn't help but think that utopias would be populated only by those of "good Aryan stock." Yet another sheltered, narrow-minded hypocrite who had no idea of how the world really works, a fool blind to the fact that women are just as wicked as men, just in different ways.
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