Wonderfully sardonic & slyly humorous the writings of landmark American feminist & socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story The Yellow Wall-Paper" Gilman also wrote " Herland" a wry novel that imagines a peaceful progressive country from which men have been absent for 2 000 years. Both are included in this volume along with a selection of Gilman's major short stories & her poems."