Herland

Herland  (1915)  by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

related portals: Feminism. sister projects: Wikipedia article. Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Gilman's monthly magazine Forerunner.

Contents

• Chapter 1: A Not Unnatural Enterprise
• Chapter 2: Rash Advances
• Chapter 3: A Peculiar Imprisonment
• Chapter 4: Our Venture
• Chapter 5: A Unique History
• Chapter 6: Comparisons Are Odious
• Chapter 7: Our Growing Modesty
• Chapter 8: The Girls of Herland
• Chapter 9: Our Relations and Theirs
• Chapter 10: Their Religions and Our Marriages
• Chapter 11: Our Difficulties
• Chapter 12: Expelled

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1935, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.