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A review by shaguirre
The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, with Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3.25
Interesting, confusing, wrong, right, thought provoking, anger provoking. Racist but considering the times not as bad as it could be. Would be a great book group book.
It definitely makes one think. I tried to keep an open mind and not judge things as being simplistic or silly - because I kept remembering that I really don't know how an all-woman society would work. I have always thought of myself as a person first, then a woman and unusual in that I don't subscribe to a lot of what society puts upon women. I tried hard to not get my back up about how motherhood is talked about as being the one thing women want to be (in Herland) because I think I would be okay with that if the world was like Herland. I think that some woman are good for making babies but not raising them up and some are good at teaching but not having any of their own. I think it takes a village. I think that a lot of what we consider feminine is just something that we take on to be different than men, or in the attempt to attract a man so there was a lot I could agree with here. There were parts that were just so funny because they are true. How clothes in Herland would have a lot of pockets. I adored the sections on how children will learn. I wonder if they would be so even tempered though but not having had children or children around me that were raised in near perfect conditions (basic needs met, freedom) maybe that is possible.
It definitely makes one think. I tried to keep an open mind and not judge things as being simplistic or silly - because I kept remembering that I really don't know how an all-woman society would work. I have always thought of myself as a person first, then a woman and unusual in that I don't subscribe to a lot of what society puts upon women. I tried hard to not get my back up about how motherhood is talked about as being the one thing women want to be (in Herland) because I think I would be okay with that if the world was like Herland. I think that some woman are good for making babies but not raising them up and some are good at teaching but not having any of their own. I think it takes a village. I think that a lot of what we consider feminine is just something that we take on to be different than men, or in the attempt to attract a man so there was a lot I could agree with here. There were parts that were just so funny because they are true. How clothes in Herland would have a lot of pockets. I adored the sections on how children will learn. I wonder if they would be so even tempered though but not having had children or children around me that were raised in near perfect conditions (basic needs met, freedom) maybe that is possible.