San Antonio College Library

How Charlotte Perkins Gilman developed her capacity to imagine a full-blown utopia for women is the focus of this book. It presents Gilman's writing both in four chapters of scholarly discussion and in a fifth chapter that contains fourteen brief reprinted selections from Gilman's utopian writing. This combination of scholarship and selection of original works is essential for understanding of Gilman because her work is so expansive, so contradictory,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman's place on its ear, this essay collection studies Gilman's writings and the manner in which they push back against societal norms and reject male-dominated confines of space. The contributors present readings of some...

"Raising the Dust identifies a heretofore-overlooked literary phenomenon that author Beth Sutton-Ramspeck calls "literary housekeeping." The three writers she examines rejected turn-of-the-century aestheticism and modernism in favor of a literature that is practical, even ostensibly mundane, designed to "set the human household in order."" "To Mary Augusta Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, housekeeping represented public responsibilities:...