THE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers. Probably best known as the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry, Gilman wrote numerous other short stories and novels reflecting her radical socialist and feminist view of turn-of-the-century America. Collected here by noted Gilman scholar Ann J. Lane are eighteen stories and fragments, including a selection from Herland, Gilman's feminist Utopia. The resulting anthology provides a provocative blueprint to Gilman's intellectual and creative production.

Contents:

• The Yellow Wallpaper
• When I Was a Witch
• If I Were a Man
• The Girl in the Pink Hat
• The Cottagette
• The Unnatural Mother
• Making a Change
• An Honest Woman
• Turned
• The Widow's Might
• Mr. Peebles' Heart
• The Crux
• What Diantha Did
• Benigna Machiavelli
• Unpunished
• Moving the Mountain
• Herland (excerpt)
• With Her in Ourland