Summing up this position, Susan Gubar argues that “women abused by the probable refuse it by imagining the possible in a revolutionary rejection of patriarchal culture ” “feminism imagines an alternative reality that is truly fantastic.” 1 Along these lines, Herland is seen as a sanctuary for the imagination, a place the reader can visit in order to gain a vantage point outside the prevailing culture. Kessler argues that Herland (1915), joins a tradition in the United States extending. Her feminist utopian novel Herland is one of the last texts that belong to the early- twentieth- century wave of feminism (Bartkowski 23). In the following essay, Peyser argues that Gilman's utopian novel Herland, rather than being a “playful deconstruction of patriarchal thought,” remains “groundĪccording to the prevailing view of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, the utopian novel suited the aims of a radical feminism by subverting the confinements of a realism dedicated to the representation of, and thus acquiescence to, a patriarchal order. Lane argues that Gilman was in fact both, a feminist and a humanist who combined socialism and feminism (Lane 230, 5). HERLAND by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman Contents CHAPTER 1.

SOURCE: “Reproducing Utopia: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Herland,” in Studies in American Fiction, Vol. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland, published in 1915, created a new sub-genre, the feminist utopia.

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