The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader: The Yellow Wallpaper, and Other Fiction

ISBN-10
0394739337
ISBN-13
9780394739335
Category
Literary Collections
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
1980
Publisher
Pantheon
Author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Description

Selections from her short stories, novels, and utopian novels illustrate Gilman's ability to forcefully present a feminist perspective on the ironies and inconsistencies of commonly held social assumptions

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