Publisher's Synopsis

Part of the Gibbs Smith Women's Voices series: A collection of literary voices written by, and for, extraordinary women?to encourage, challenge, and inspire. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) championed women's rights in her prolific fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Discover three influential works by one of America's first feminists in their unabridged form: the short story The Yellow Wallpaper, a haunting interpretation of postpartum depression; the feminist utopian novel Herland; and Women and Economics, which when published in 1898 established Gilman as a sociologist, philosopher, ethicist, and social critic, and is considered by many to be her greatest work. Continue your journey in the Women's Voices series with Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte (ISBN: 978-1-4236-5099-7), The Feminist Papers, by Mary Wollstonecraft (ISBN: 978-1-4236-5097-3), Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, the complete poems of Emily Dickinson (ISBN: 978-1-4236-5098-0), and Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (ISBN: 978-1-4236-5211-3).

Book information

ISBN: 9781423652137
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Imprint: Gibbs Smith
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 813.4
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 428g
Height: 192mm
Width: 142mm
Spine width: 21mm