Herland is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman about folk culture. The book starts with a story based on a scientific expedition, I became fascinated with the legends and folk myths of these scattered tribes. They spoke of a strange country where no men lived, only women and girl children. It was dangerous, deadly, for any man to go there; but there were tales of long ago when some brave investigator had seen it. Jeffrey Eugenides: T. O. Without drawing any more attention than a snip in the society section, Nicholson could put up his large steam yacht, load a large motorboat that was expressly made for it, and tuck in a "disassembled" biplane. A long ocean cruise is a great opportunity for conversation, and this time there were no listeners. They followed us while sailing low, quartering, and observing the country. They saw land in a state of perfect cultivation, where even the forests looked as if they were cared for" It was quite easy to see afterward that the wisest course of action would have been to thoroughly research the nation before leaving our swooping airship.
When Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman passed away in 1935, she was well-known for both her political and journalistic writing as well as her unusual personal life. As a pioneering journalist and feminist scholar in her day, Gilman was a supporter of women's rights activists like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and her great-aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although Gilman was interested in social justice and political injustice in general, her writing was primarily focused on the uneven treatment of women in the institution of marriage. Gilman argued that restricting women to the domestic sphere denied them the opportunity to express their full potential for creativity and intelligence while depriving society of women with the skills necessary for careers in the private and public sectors. Her arguments were made in such works as Concerning Children (1900), The Home (1904), and Human Work (1904). She argued that the conventional family power structure did not benefit anyone, not the wife who was treated like an unpaid servant, not the husband who was treated like a master, and not the kids who were subject to both. Women and Economics, her most ambitious study, examined the hidden worth of women's labor in the capitalist economy.
