Gilman created a world that could be viewed from the feminist gaze. She focused on how women were not just stay-at-home mothers they were expected to be but also people who had dreams, who were able to travel and work just as men did, and whose goals included a society where women were just as important as men. In the early 1900s this was striking and revolutionary. The stories in this collection are: 'A Coincidence'; 'According To Solomon', 'An Offender', 'A Middle-Sized Artist', 'Martha's Mother', 'Her Housekeeper', 'When I Was A Witch', 'Making a Living', 'A Coincidence, The Cottagette', 'The Boys and the Butter', 'My Astonishing Dodo', and 'A Word In Season'.
Foundations of Feminist Fiction. The early 1900s saw a quiet revolution in literature dominated by male adventure heroes. Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the male gaze to write from a different gender perpective, sometimes with female protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom to write on any subject whatsoever.
| ISBN: | 9781804175804 |
| Publication date: | 13th June 2023 |
| Author: | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| Publisher: | Flame Tree 451 an imprint of Flame Tree Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Foundations of Feminist Fiction |
| Genres: |
Shorter Reads Feminism and feminist theory |