Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote fiction, essays and social criticism about women's independence, work and the restrictions built into nineteenth-century domestic life. 'The Yellow Wallpaper' follows a woman confined to a room as part of a prescribed rest cure, using her increasingly disturbed narration to show how medical authority and enforced inactivity affect her mind. Herland imagines an isolated society composed entirely of women and uses visiting male explorers to examine assumptions about gender, family and social organisation. Gilman's non-fiction, including Women and Economics, argues more directly for women's economic independence. Her writing fits early feminist literature, American short fiction and utopian or social-reform writing. 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the strongest starting point for Gilman's fiction, while Women and Economics presents her social arguments without the filter of a fictional narrator. Read more Less
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