Herland - Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

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Résumé :
Herland (1915) is a utopian novel by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland was originally published in The Forerunner, a monthly magazine edited by Gilman, before going out of print for the next several decades. The novel was republished with an influential introduction by scholar Ann J. Lane in 1979 and has since been recognized as an important work of science fiction written by a leading feminist of the early twentieth century. A sociologist and his two friends embark on an expedition to discover a rumored land where a lost civilization of women lives apart from the rest of the world. They journey by plane and, upon landing, are quickly captured by a group of women. Taken to town, the men are held in a central fortress where they are treated well and encouraged to learn more about the women's culture in order to assimilate. They are taught the history of the land, which has been without men for two thousand years, and learn that the women are able to reproduce asexually. Although they recognize the utopian qualities of the society and despite being impressed by the beauty and order of its structures, the men struggle to live without presupposed notions of gender and patriarchy. When an escape attempt goes awry, they are forced to abandon their prejudices, joining the society through marriage. When one of the group fails to respect their hosts' ideals of gender equality, however, the men are forced to make a decision that could endanger the continued existence of the utopia. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland is a classic of American literature and science fiction reimagined for modern readers.

Biographie:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - tamb?m conhecida pelo nome de casada Charlotte Perkins Stetson - nasceu a 3 de julho de 1860 na cidade de Hartford, Estado do Connecticut, Estados Unidos da Am?rica. Veio a falecer na cidade de Pasadena, no Estado da Calif?rnia, Estados Unidos da Am?rica a 17 de agosto de 1935 aos 75 anos, apologista da eutan?sia, terminou a sua vida tendo cometido suic?dio por via de uma overdose de clorof?rmio. Quer na sua autobiografia, quer na sua nota de suic?dio, ela escreveu preferir o clorof?rmio ao cancro. Faleceu r?pida e silenciosamente.Charlotte Perkins Gilman foi uma escritora, novelista, ativista social e proeminente feminista (ut?pica). Gilman era bastante menos revolucion?ria noutros aspetos, dir-se-? at? mesmo retr?grada ? luz dos dias de hoje e conservadora na sua ?poca. A determinada altura defensora do Darwinismo Social, acreditava que isso ajudaria ? luta feminista. Opunha-se ? miscigena??o e defendia uma sociedade cuja harmonia se baseava no eurocentrismo racial.No entanto, devemos v?-la ? luz da sua ?poca, e que pese as suas perspetivas racistas e eug?nicas, ela deixou uma obra de valor liter?rio e art?stico, e permanece para as gera??es vindouras como um ponto de refer?ncia e grande influ?ncia para muitos dos passos do feminismo ao longo do s?culo XX, mais ou menos radical....

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