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Herland
Title: Herland
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1075 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Herland
Herland is the story of three men who stumble upon a society populated entirely by
women. This culture is superior in virtually all ways to the world of the men. The narrator
of the book is one of the visiting men , and he is constantly in awe of the perfection of the
country. In writing Herland , Gilman attempted to address the problems that go hand in
hand with gender roles. By creating a female utopia,
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is subjected to the same
treatment as are all other social values , as part of our primarily cultural, not
biological, package. (109)
Gilman believed that women were restricted by their roles in society. She uses a
society made up of females to show that women were confined by their roles of society ,
and were capable of much more. The women of Herland represent what a woman can
become without the restrictions being put on them. (Simpson )
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