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Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who bear children without men ( parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination.
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May 10, 1992 · No sole heir to an empire’s throne, no solitary millionaire baby, no only child of middle-aged parents, could compare as an idol with these Herland children. But before I start on that subject I must finish up that little analysis I was trying to make.
Herland is a utopian novel written by feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman and first published in 1915. The novel is narrated by Vandyck Jennings, a young sociologist who, along with two friends, discovers a hidden society of women in a remote part of the world.
HERLAND is no different and the opening chapters place it squarely into this well populated, genre. The story starts, of course, with the men laying their ever so masculine plans for domination of an as yet unexplored, near mythical land populated with only women.
Herland was first published in serial form in 1915, less than one year after the beginning of World War I and two years before the United States became involved in the war. The emphasis on peace, cooperation, and humanity found in Herland reflects the desires of many Americans who feared what the raging war in Europe meant for their own families.
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“Herland is utopia with a smile, a gently, witty version of what women can be. As fascinating to women for what it omits entirely as for what it discovers and invents for us, it is a fast and invigorating read.
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Thanks to Herland’s isolated location and the extreme interdependence of its inhabitants, its members must put the community’s needs before their own. Herland is organized more as a family than as a state, and each member is happy to sacrifice for the greater good.
