3.5
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings
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Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon—with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and a Granta Best Young American Novelist
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose poems, articles, short stories, and novels had a single focus: equality for women. Although best known for “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” her spine-chilling takedown of the “rest cure” prescribed for postpartum depression, Gilman spent her life advocating for a woman’s right to an education, to creative self-expression and economic self-sufficiency, and an end to the consumerism that blinded women to the ways that society held them back.
This collection brings together Gilman’s best-known work with her lesser-known satirical short stories to provide an overarching introduction to this relentless ideologue.
The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose poems, articles, short stories, and novels had a single focus: equality for women. Although best known for “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” her spine-chilling takedown of the “rest cure” prescribed for postpartum depression, Gilman spent her life advocating for a woman’s right to an education, to creative self-expression and economic self-sufficiency, and an end to the consumerism that blinded women to the ways that society held them back.
This collection brings together Gilman’s best-known work with her lesser-known satirical short stories to provide an overarching introduction to this relentless ideologue.
The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.
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3.5
Maureen
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“I like to take my time reading a book of short stories and give each story the time to settle before moving on to the next. So this book took a while to finish.
After a few stories it felt like I was reading the same story again and again.
I liked The Yellow Wallpaper the best.
Others I liked include Unnatural Mother, According to Solomon (loved how she bought him stuff he didn’t like haha), and The Widow’s Might.
It was definitely a feminist book but white woman feminism.
While I tip my hat to Perkins Gilman for her push for women’s rights, it’s hard to look away from her other beliefs.
A little google search will tell you a little more about the other things Charlotte Perkins Gilman believed in.
There were some higher rated stories and some lower ones. I settled on 3⭐️ for the book as a whole.”Molly
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“Two stars is generous because I did enjoy the titular story but the others were *plbbbtttttt* the racism and classism really jumps out in them and also they were boring”
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“Gilman creates stories centred around Feminist women with lives and situations, using them to comment upon patriarchy, motherhood, post-partum depression, and more. These women are imbued with strength, grace, and intelligence. Its a shame she was a raging racist.
* The Yellow Wall-Paper - an unnerving condemnation of the 'rest cure'. 4 stars
* The Giant Wistaria - a very literal portrayal of the fatal consequences of the patriarchy and unwed motherhood. 3 stars.
* Three Thanksgivings - the original girlboss. Refusing to marry a man for stability and instead creating financial stability for herself. 4 stars.
* The Cottagette - a man who wants his future wife to pursue her passion instead of slave away in the kitchen is my kind of 20th century romance. 4 stars
* An Honest Woman - they always come crawling back smh. 4 stars.
* Making a Change - taking care of 15 babies on a roof sounds like hell to me, but to each their own lol. 4 stars.
* Turned - you better than me sis because I would have left the both of them. 3 stars.
* The Widow's Might - iconic behaviour - go live your life sis. 4 stars.
* If I Were a Man - don't make me read from a man's perspective. 3 stars.
* Mr. Peebles' Heart - can the doctor perscribe me a holiday too pls? 3 stars.
* The Unatural Mother - ungrateful brats. 3 stars.
* Herland - an interesting exploration of a matriarchal society without male influence. Terry was an insufferable prick. 3.5 stars.
* Women and Economics - a very repetitive look into women's forced economic dependance on men. 2 stars.”
About Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was a leading figure in the women’s movement of the early twentieth century. Gilman’s most famous work, “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” was based on her own experiences with postpartum depression and launched her into the national spotlight. Her subsequent work was built on her belief that women are not only the equal of men but in many ways their superiors. Gilman died in 1935 as the result of a breast cancer diagnosis. Having been diagnosed with inoperable breast cancer, she wrote that she “preferred chloroform to cancer.”
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