Publisher's Synopsis
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American feminist, social activist, and writer. Gilman served as a role model for all the future feminists and female writers that followed her. Gilman is now best remembered for writing The Yellow Wallpaper, an influential short story, and Herland, a classic utopian novel. The Man-Made World, published in 1911, is a book that Gilman wrote as a critique of the male dominated culture. Gilman believed that male dominance has only hindered the growth of the human race.