Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America

ISBN-13: 9780817359539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Jill Annette Bergman; Jill Annette Bergman; Peter Betjemann

Spis treści

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: A Woman's Place Is Not in the Home
• I. Geography and Biography: Places in and of Gilman's Life
• 1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the US West
• 2. Artistic Renderings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• 3. ""The Yellow Wall-Paper"" as Modernist Space
• II. Know Your Place: Limits on Women's Freedom and Power
• 4. ""Perhaps This Was the Opening of the Gate"": Gilman, the West, and the Free Will Problem
• 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ""The Giant Wistaria"": A Hieroglyph of the Female Frontier Gothic
• III. Reclaiming and Redefining a ""Woman's Place""
• 6. ""A Crazy Quilt of a Paper"": Theorizing the Place of the Periodical in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner Fiction
• 7. The Power of the Postal Service in Gilman's ""Turned"": Exposing Adultery and Empowering Women to Find a Meaningful Place
• 8. Eavesdropping with Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Fiction, Transcription, and the Ethics of Interior Design
• 9. Recovering the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman; or, Reading Gilman in Rome
• Contributors
• Index