Herland

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Herland is a 1915 utopian feminist novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that imagines an isolated, all-female society to critique patriarchal norms.

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instanceOf novel
author Charlotte Perkins Gilman NERFINISHED
character Alima NERFINISHED
Celis NERFINISHED
Ellador NERFINISHED
Jeff Margrave NERFINISHED
Terry O. Nicholson NERFINISHED
Vandyck Jennings NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
exploresConcept single-sex society
social engineering through education
firstPublicationFormat serial
firstPublishedIn The Forerunner NERFINISHED
followedBy With Her in Ourland NERFINISHED
genre feminist literature
satire
social criticism
utopian fiction
hasForm prose
hasSequel With Her in Ourland NERFINISHED
influenced feminist utopian fiction
literaryMovement first-wave feminism
utopian literature tradition
literaryTechnique allegory
didactic narrative
mainTheme cooperation vs competition
critique of patriarchy
education
gender roles
motherhood
social organization
narrativePerspective first-person
narrator Vandyck Jennings NERFINISHED
originalLanguage English
partOfSeries Herland trilogy NERFINISHED
plotElement conflict between patriarchal attitudes and egalitarian society
society reproduces by parthenogenesis
three male explorers discover an all-female society
publicationYear 1915
publisherOfFirstBookEdition Pantheon Books NERFINISHED
reception rediscovered by feminist scholars in the 1970s
setting fictional country
isolated all-female society
targetAudience adult readers
workPeriod early 20th century

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