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nunca tinha lido uma utopia tão utópica, Amei a experiência! This might change upon further reflection but right after finishing id give Herland a,rating and The Yellow Wallpaper gets a solid,! Herland verdient meine erste Rezension, da ich es nicht einfach mit einerSterneBewertung hier stehen lassen kann.
Herland ist eins dieser Bücher, das ich nicht aufgrund seines literarischen Wertes zu Ende gelesen habe, sondern aufgrund seines historischen Stellenwerts.
Ich war sehr dankbar über das Vorwort von Lindy West in dieser Ausgabe, sie stellt Herlands Stärken und Schwächen deutlich gegenüber und ja, Schwächen hat es einige.
Ich habe Herland gelesen, weil ich mich viel und gerne mit feministischer Literatur beschäftige, Herland allerdings lässt sich meiner Meinung nach nur unter Einbeziehung seiner Entstehungszeitals solche bezeichnen, Man sollte sich während des Lesens immer wieder daran erinnern ", dieses Buch wurdegeschrieben, von einer weißen Frau,", andernfalls werden einen einige Meinungen und "feministische" Ansätze überaus wütend machen.
Es ist mit Sicherheit spannend, sich mit Perkins Gilmans Auslegung von Feminismus auseinanderzusetzen, besonders in Bezug auf die Unterdrückung und Umstände der Frau Anfang des.
Jahrhunderts, als rein literarisches Werk allerdings halte ich Herland für nicht lesenswert, Perkins Gilman legt mehr Wert auf die Konzeption ihres utopischen, ausschließlich von Frauen bewohnten Staats, in dem es keine Gewalt, kein Verbrechen, keinen Hass und keine Hunde gibt, als auf eine spannende Charaktergestaltung und Entwicklung.
Herland hat mich wütend und traurig gemacht, Einige der hier behandelten misogynen und rassistischen Meinungen sind heute noch so aktuell wie, Wenn nicht noch mehr.
I read 'Herland' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman many years ago as part of my many readings into utopic societies and ideas.
This is still a fabulous story, a fictional utopia, written at a timewhen women were still struggling for the right to vote amp the US was slowly breaking out of the Victorian modes of living yet reflects some new thinking of the time.
There will be no spoilers here but I will say that it hearkens to social reforms, environmental awareness as well as being a classic novel of feminist literature a super read.
Most books which publish her writings include some of her other short stories as well as her poems, this one did not disappoint either amp there is much to be gleaned from her idealizations, some clearly based on personal experiences as per her biographers.
She writes playfully amp somewhat lightly but with great skill to get her viewpoint across all definitely worth reading more than once too! Herland, as a contemporary piece must of been phenomenal.
Unfortunately, I can only read it through the view of ast century feminist, Admittedly, areas of Herland are impressive, like Gilmans satirical comments throughout upon the treatment of women in our society, as well as the subtle ridiculing of Van, Jeff and Terry.
However, I was disappointed to find as a piece of literature it is incredibly unremarkable, This is unlike The Yellow Wallpaper, which is its superior by far, In Herland, undeveloped archetypes are forced into an allegory so idyllic I kept rolling
my eyes, Entirely a product of its time, the citizens of Herland teach almost every woman values her maternity above everything else, . . they hold it close and dear, a crowning honor, the most intimate and precious thing, Women who enjoy sex are shunned, the idea of women who wish not to have children are met with abject horror.
Gilman has written a subversive novel by making women empowered by making them good mothers an entirely understandable concept to an era preceded by Victorian amp Edwardians.
I hesitate to wonder if someone writing a male utopia would base it solely on parenthood, The plot is unwaveringly dull, a flatline of events which is never threatened or challenged, The book is merely a description of the utopia rather than a viable adventure story, as the mens attempt at escape is never given any real gravitas or possibility.
These women appear perfect I agree with Lindy Wests introduction, that they are far too perfect, This leads to a boring read, one which is impressive in its satire and concept but unfortunately, little else, Luckily, The Yellow Wallpaper is brilliant, I really liked this. But fck Terry though. He's awful. It's always interesting to pick up earlier examples of feminist literature, The context is different yet the messages feel the same, Herland was a peculiar but interesting example of utopian literature from a diverse angle, one often missed in other examples of the genre.
The Yellow Wallpaper is a compelling short story and a perfect addition to this little paperback, Thoroughly enjoyed! The yellow wallpaper was good but Herland was pretty meh! It didnt have enough going on, not enough action for some good pacing.
I felt like i was just reading some philosophy book, And the ending was pretty crap, like nothing really happens, It's complicated. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is amazing and an early example of mother horror, a genre much in print right now because of the ridiculous expectations still demanded of working parents and the dearth of childcare.
It's also a great example of an unreliable narrator, One of my favorite short stories ever, Like, desertisland good.
But the feminist utopian novel Herland though was dull and slow to read, Important, yes. Fascinating, yes. But, nonetheless, dull. I'm glad I read it but didn't enjoy reading it, If it were shorter and had more plot it would've helped, Still. As a forerunner of feminist utopias, singular enough to be worth working through itspages, Herland: One of the best books I've ever read, When I picked up this book I didn't really know what it was about or if I was gonna like it, but I was fascinated by the descriptions, the characters and everything.
Eventhough it was written a century ago, it is still relevant today, I truly recommend reading this,
The Yellow Wallpaper: I liked this little story and the way it is written but it is not one of my favourites.
there were some good points along the lines of Herland but they were lost in the middle of the most boring and dry storytelling ever.
its like a politics book told second hand, . . I decided to finish this just purely to see if it would have some point by the end, otherwise I would have given up before half.
The Yellow Wallpaper was pretty interesting tho three for Herland and five for The Yellow Wallpaper,Herland tells the story of three men who discover a secluded civilization comprised entirely of women, Written in, before Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, youIhave to admire the boldness of Gilman's vision some of her ideas, not just about gender equality and feminism, but also about our treatment of the environment and childrearing practices, are prescient and at times feel spot on.
However, the writing itself, the storytelling, is just not as good as some of the ideas and the spirit behind it.
interesting in the way it analyses the patriarchy but the pacing was unbearable and so was the racism madness in yellow a female 'republic' oh my goodness.
Read this on a plane to England, Talk about dystopic utopias!for Yellow Wallpaper,,for Herland which, while interesting and still relevant in many ways had a bit too much of a eugenics vibe to rank as an worthwhile utopia.
Still, credit where it is due, Gilman recognised inthat an all women society would ultimately prioritise pockets on every garment as part of their ruling philosophy.
When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere.
How could these women survive without man's knowledge, experience and strength, not to mention reproductive power In fact, what they have found is a civilisation free from disease, poverty and the weight of tradition.
All alone, the women have created a society of calm and prosperity, a feminist utopia that dares to threaten the very concept of male superiority.
I have read The Yellow Wallpaper before, There is something very important and also very disturbing about it, and it is a great read for anyone, I think.
As for Herland, I am glad I finally read it, There is many topics to discuss about it, but for me I think is the most poignant the discussion about religion and the JudeoChristian concept of God, an old one, redundant in our culture nowadays.
Perkins Gilman pointed this out hundred years ago, Yet we still have people who find "the laws of God" a concept to be obeyed blindly, I'd like too say we have moved as a society, the western society I mean, but there is still so many things to work on! I would have given this an extra star if the women had decided to chop Terrys dick off like he deserved Ha.
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This is a mismatched selection, the Yellow wallpaper is about twenty pages long and is the better of the two from a literary point of view, Herland is just short of two hundred pages and is one of those books more interesting to read about than to read , it is not exactly a dud, but is a classic example of Utopian dystopian fiction in that the author is more interested in the concept to the exclusion of the story.
But who reads dystopian literature for the story, and Herland is dystopian particularly for dog lovers, but for them and everybody else on account of the racism, which perhaps rather invalidates the feminism .
Both are good pieces of political writing, although I did not feel that either was great from a literary point of view.
Herland is very much like sitelinkThe Lost World, if you got rid of the dull dinosaurs and murderous cavemen to replace them with a steady state society of three million women reproducing through parthenogenesis, and if you also got rid of the Victorian British men to replace them with three all American boy adventurers, one a man's man macho domineering type, one a southern gentleman who believes in entrapping his women through chivalry and deference, and one Goldilocks character who is our narrator.
The three, on an expedition, somewhere, hear some wild, crazy talk of a place where there are only women and no men and naturally they strike off to investigate, spotting signs of pollution in the water they instantly conclude they are close to an advanced civilisation, and make use of their handy biplane parked on their superyacht to fly into Herland, if this had been made into a sleazy film in thes I imagine the poster would be rather like that for sitelink Attack of theft woman.
But enough of such foolish diversions, There are a host of similar books to this, sitelinkLost Horizon a bit later, maybe too sitelinkKing Solomon's Mines with the idea that through travel and adventure one might stumble into some ancient kingdom and they generally do seem to be nondemocratic places which preserves ancient wisdom, or hidden treasure, or lost transformative secrets.
At the same time the true nature of the protagonists will be revealed and a mirror held up to the society from whence they came.
My problem in talking about this book is that Gilman herself is so keen to discuss and elaborate on her concept that the temptation is just to make fun of the details which isn't the point really.
A friend reminded me that Mary Beard in sitelinkWomen and Power discusses Herland, though I didn't read it that long ago I have forgotten what she had to say about it, on the issue of power, this all woman society is compared to Bee Hives and Ant colonies several times by the investigating men and it is headed by an 'overmother' or Queen as I believe we generally say in English, formal political structures don't seem to be necessary in the society that Gilman describes since the women form a cultural unity and seem to be of one mind mostly, although at the same time through eugenic practises they have bred out criminality and most of their laws are less than twenty years old so they feel the need for law making, how laws are made and enforced is not clear.
What is clear is that while Gilman is rejecting some of her society's prejudices against women, she embraces other prejudices whole heartedly we are repeatedly told that these women are Aryans and racially pure, she believed that criminality is heritable and can be bred out, Herland is also the embodiment of the Angel in the House ideology logically expanded to an entire society, yes, she says, women are different and noble and pure, they are the Angels in the house, mothers and homemakers, their only problem is men, once all the men are out of the way then society becomes a family and a nation becomes a home, further and maybe these are the jokes in the book my sense of humour is deficient, so it is hard for me to tell in such a situation women will not grow hairs on their faces, their clothes will have lots of pockets, and there will be a lot of cats .
On the most interesting side Gilman's rational society is apparently vegan, they gave up animal husbandry because they calculated that their secret plateau Queendom was too small to support three million woman and livestock apart from cats , they have crafts, but show no signs of having the Arts Gilman had been reading her Plato.
The women are prepared to enter into relations with the three men and to become a bisexual society in the sense of possessing both sexes in terms of their relationships they are entirely chaste and asexual three intrepid women are prepared to enter into intimate relationships with the Americans, the society held aloof for two thousand years from the local men presumably because they are 'savages' and nonaryan.
This goes about as well as Goldilock's famous visit to the house of the three bears .
I can imagine that there are some interesting books about Herland, or that it was interesting to read when it was published in the face of the particular prejudices about women of the time, or if you were really desperate for a gynocentric literature, but not otherwise.
The Yellow Wallpaperis more fun, a woman writes a diary secretly and intermittently, she seems to be suffering from post natal depression, her condition worsens over time due to the prejudices of her doctor husband.
Again the concept is great, isolated woman getting more and more mad, the way her wants and needs are brushed away and dismissed with instead a strict daily timetable and an emphasis on will power to achieve health from the husband who inconveniently is also her doctor the story is derived from the mainstream medical practise of the day and I believe Gilman's own experience, the build up of sinister imagery is good the overregulated garden, the lonely deserted house that might have a dark secret in addition to having an upstairs room with bars on the window, rings on the wall and a chewed bed frame which naturally the unhappy couple use as their bedroom it also has the eponymous psychedelic wallpaper.
But it doesn't sing as a short story, it's workman like, Great idea, average execution.
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