Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a mesmerizing and unsettling exploration of the female psyche and the stifling constraints of 19th-century society. The story is narrated by a woman suffering from what her husband and physicians diagnose as "nervous depression." She is confined to a room in her home and prescribed a treatment of complete rest. As the protagonist spends her days in isolation, she becomes increasingly obsessed...

A collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer's most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick
Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her...

Discover three influential works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in their unabridged form. This collection includes the haunting short story The Yellow Wallpaper, the feminist utopian novel Herland, and the nonfiction triumph Women and Economics, which established Gilman as a sociologist, ethicist, philosoper, and social critic--and is considered by many to be her greatest work.

Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. The second book in the trilogy is her land mark classic Herland. Moving Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society. She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time, largely with greater social cooperation - equal education and treatment for girls and boys, day-care centers for working women,...

Best known for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an almost exact contemporary of Edith Wharton, is celebrated as one of America's foremost feminist writers. This collection includes 28 of her short stories. In addition to The Yellow Wallpaper are The Unexpected (her first published work), The Great Wistaria, An Extinct Angel, The Unnatural Mother and Deserted. These stories range from the subversive to the humorous, and...

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) estadounidense multidisciplinar se destacó en la literatura entre finales de 1890 y mediados de 1920; defensora del feminismo y del papel de la mujer en la sociedad. Sirvió de ejemplo para futuras generaciones de mujeres debido a sus ideas y su estilo de vida poco visto para la época.

En la presente edición recogemos dos relatos breves:

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Os textos reunidos nesta edição formam um importante conjunto representativo da produção ficcional da escritora norte-americana Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), considerada uma pioneira do feminismo. Nos sete contos selecionados e traduzidos por Heloisa Seixas estão em cena os temas que mobilizaram a autora durante toda a vida: a condição social das mulheres, a opressão imposta a elas e a necessidade de emancipação. Charlotte trata...

En esta recopilación se puede apreciar la maestría de Charlotte Perkins Gilman para el cuento corto, reflexivo y con gran conciencia social. Textos divertidos a la par que trágicos, donde sus protagonistas deciden dar un giro a sus ideas y convicciones para asumir un papel principal en sus vidas. Toda esta obra se puede definir como un clamor hacia el feminismo que ridiculiza con grandes dosis de ironía los cánones patriarcales establecidos hacia...

The Man-Made World (1911) is a sociological study by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Inspired by her work as a social reformer and advocate for women's suffrage, Gilman sought to write a work of nonfiction that explained the effects of patriarchy not only on the lives of women, but on the structure and health of society at large. In the beginning, Gilman observes that though biology naturally attributes motherhood and fatherhood...

What if the room you were sent to recover in was the very thing unraveling your mind? In The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivers a haunting narrative that is both a psychological horror and a blistering critique of the 19th-century treatment of women's mental health. Told through the diary of a woman confined by her physician husband, the story chronicles her slow and harrowing descent into madness as she becomes obsessed with the...