The Complete Herland Trilogy includes Moving the Mountain, Herland, and With Her in Ourland. Moving the Mountain is the utopian novel by the predominant feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1915. It is among the classic utopian and dystopian novels of the early twentieth century. The plot involves two siblings meeting after 25 years outside Tibet. The protagonist returns to America to discover it has changed into a society unrecognizable from before. It is described as "beyond Socialism," a strain of nationalism. Themes such as "new humanitarianism," eugenics, renewable resources...

The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the 1911 book that discusses feminine and masculine behavior our society. The focus is on what negative effects there are on our society because of a male dominated society. Rather than tear down masculinity, she switches to what men and women share and how all can benefit from common traits. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and...

With Her in Ourland is the utopian novel by the predominant feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1916. It is among the classic utopian and dystopian novels of the early twentieth century. The book starts where Herland ends and continues to follow the protagonists established in Herland as they confront the inequities of our land. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great...

Concerning Children is the 1900 text on the reflections of notable feminist thinker on the social and economic construct of motherhood. Her main goal in this book is the betterment of society through the focus on teaching children creativity and individuality rather than the stringent traditionalism of the past. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great influence on modern feminism...

What Diantha Did is the novel published in 1909 by the leading feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The story is about an entrepreneurial young heroin protagonist. She starts a homecleaning service to escape her home and her fiance. As her business quickly expands the social structure of the day is highlighted. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great influence on modern...

The Home: Its Work and Influence is the 1903 book by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman that attacks the domestic life of the early twentieth century. "the economic independence and specialization of women is essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement," which is her central theme, and echoes most loudly in this book, the antithesis of her work. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine...

The Crux is an important work of literature by the early feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Published in 1910 it was influential piece, especially for young women. The story centers around a young protagonist Vivian as she falls in love with an explorer that has both gonorrhea and syphilis. Her concern is not that she will catch the diseases, but that she will hurt the "national stock," if she were to marry and conceive. The novel is a "story . . . for young women to read . . . in order that they may protect themselves and their children to come." Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable...

The Romance of Lust: A Classic Victorian erotic novel. The novel was written anonymously in four volumes between 1873 and 1876. The book is told in the first person by a Charlie Roberts, the main protagonist, who is well endowed and has a veracious sexual appetite. The story is about his many sexual exploits including; anal sex, cunnilingus, double penetration, fellatio, flagellation, group sex, homosexuality, incest, lesbianism, masturbation, orgies, and pedophilia. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages....

My Secret Life by an anonymous author is the eighteenth century memoir of a gentleman describing his sexual encounters. It was originally published in private editions. The book has been criticized and praised for its writing style, which has been described as disorganized and flighty and fantastical and deep. Weather fact or fiction may never be known, it has had a long history of inciting conversation. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of...

The Ladies Delight is the eighteenth century collection of poems. The poems are mostly erotic in nature and speak about the male form ranging from comedy to erotica. It was originally published in 1732 by an anonymous author.