{"id":28432,"date":"2016-06-28T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=28432"},"modified":"2016-06-13T13:18:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T18:18:24","slug":"the-yellow-wallpaper-and-other-writings-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-yellow-wallpaper-and-other-writings-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=512446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28434\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28434\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Yellow-wallpaper.jpg?resize=259%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Yellow wallpaper\" width=\"259\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>It isn&#8217;t a new book by any means, but\u00a0I found the themes and the writing\u00a0of the short stories in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=512446\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings<\/strong><\/a><\/em> so timeless that it could be.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote her stories\u00a0about a hundred years ago.\u00a0If you think of\u00a0authors who lived at the turn of the 20th\u00a0century to be stodgy, you may be\u00a0as surprised as I was\u00a0by Gilman&#8217;s\u00a0candor and (sometimes) humor about gender identity, mental health\u00a0and social norms. These themes are very much hot-button issues today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Herland&#8221; is the story that most made me want to check out the book, but I\u00a0enjoyed all of them.\u00a0In this utopian fantasy, a\u00a0group of three male explorers set out to\u00a0find a secret, all-female civilization rumored to exist in the seclusion of the forest. Their tantalizing visions of what they\u00a0hope to encounter\u00a0is not exactly\u00a0what they actually\u00a0find!<\/p>\n<p>For a different -but no less interesting-\u00a0take on the all-female society theme, you may want to check out the graphic novel\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=177637\" target=\"_blank\">Y: The Last Man<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Brian K. Vaughan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t a new book by any means, but\u00a0I found the themes and the writing\u00a0of the short stories in\u00a0The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings so timeless that it could be. 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