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A review by gracefool
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3.0
3.5 stars
Highs and lows, as expected with any short story collection. Some lines have you cheering for the (then and still now) radical feminist hot take, and other stories feel more like the author theorising a feminist future, while trying to present it as a story. There's literally one section where the women discuss a female owned enterprise, and it's just dialogue on how they will invent this feminist business model. Which from a feminist view f yeah, but from a reading fiction point of view, bit boring.
Despite the first impressions of the titular story, the yellow wallpaper, which had me believing this was going to be a series of mad women with little autonomy, for the most part this book is about women stepping outside of their traditional roles, interrupting the script their male counterparts have thrust upon them, and create their own wealth, happiness and/or future.
Highs and lows, as expected with any short story collection. Some lines have you cheering for the (then and still now) radical feminist hot take, and other stories feel more like the author theorising a feminist future, while trying to present it as a story. There's literally one section where the women discuss a female owned enterprise, and it's just dialogue on how they will invent this feminist business model. Which from a feminist view f yeah, but from a reading fiction point of view, bit boring.
Despite the first impressions of the titular story, the yellow wallpaper, which had me believing this was going to be a series of mad women with little autonomy, for the most part this book is about women stepping outside of their traditional roles, interrupting the script their male counterparts have thrust upon them, and create their own wealth, happiness and/or future.