This collection includes selectionsfrom both her fiction and nonfiction work.In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startling vision to suggest how women's “place”in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman's The Man-Made World. Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, Women and Economics, which was translated into seven languages and established her international reputation as a theorist.

Known primarily for her classic and haunting story“The Yellow Wallpaper，”Charlotte Perkins Gilman was anenormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Herearly-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writersand activists today.

This collection includes selectionsfrom both her fiction and nonfiction work. In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startling vision to suggest how women"s “place”in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman"s The Man-Made World. Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, Women and Economics, which was translated into seven languages and established her international reputation as a theorist.

Also included is a delightful excerpt from Gilman"s utopian novel, Herland, an acidly funny tale. about three American male explorers who stumble into an all-female society and begin their odyssey by insisting,“This is a civilized country...there must be men”

Gilman’s analyses of economic and women’s issues are as incisive and relevant today as they were upon their original publication. This volume is an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover a powerful American writer.

Novelist and short story writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of Leaving Brooklyn, Disturbances in the Field,Rough Strife, and The Melting" Pot and Other Subversive Stories.

Introduction by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

The Yellow Wallpaper

If I Were a Man

Turned

The Cottagette

An Honest Woman

Making a Change

Mr. Peebles’ Heart

The Widow’s Might

SELECTONS FROM Herland

SELECTIONS FROM Women and Economics:

A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women

SELECTIONS FROM The Man-Made World: Our Androcentric Culture