Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America

Explores how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman's place on its ear, this collection studies Gilman's writings and the manner in which they push back against societal norms and reject male-dominated confines of space.

About the author

Jill Bergman is the author of The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins and a coeditor of Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women. She is a professor emerita at the University of Montana, where she taught courses in American literature and women's studies. Her work on American women writers has appeared in numerous journals and collections.

Summary

Explores how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman's place on its ear, this collection studies Gilman's writings and the manner in which they push back against societal norms and reject male-dominated confines of space.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jill Annette Bergman (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780817359539
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5953-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies