San Antonio College Library

"This edition of The Yellow Wallpaper includes a generous selection of cultural and historical documents that illuminate how Gilman's classic feminist tale can be read as a springboard for her subsequent career as a cultural critic. The documents accompanying this edition have been selected to help readers situate The Yellow Wallpaper in relation to Gilman's time period and wide range of interests. Included are excerpts from nineteenth-century advice...

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,...