HERLAND
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
£6.99
'A seriously funny book'
New York Times
Three male explorers stumble on a community of women living deep in the Amazon rainforest, in a society without class divisions, war, greed, lust or hatred. It's a material world that encompasses science and technology on one hand, and the beauty and simplicity of a pastoral life on the other. It is also a world that places human social values centre-stage.
Written in 1915 by the author of the classic feminist story The Yellow Wallpaper, this tantalising and provocative account of a female utopia has been called 'a woman's answer to HG Wells.' Infused with humour and hope, it remains fuel for dreams of change today..
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860-1935), humanist, wrote books of history, anthropology, ethics and philosophy, as well as poetry, novels, satire and social commentary. She devoted her life to lecturing and writing in order to persuade a vast audience of the feasibility of her feminist-socialist vision. A collection of her writing, The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader: Yellow Wallpaper and Other Fiction, is published by The Women's Press.
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