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mollydelahoya 's review for:
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
An important work of feminist literature...
An eerie and unsettling account of a woman's post-partum psychosis during the late 1800's. Gilman did a great service by chronicling the psychiatric practices of the time that spiraled a woman deeper into madness.
At face value this a disturbing Gothic story, but more importantly it touches on the misogyny that permeated the author's time period.
This is a story that will be unaffected by time. Despite being written in the 1890's, it will still hit close to home for any new mother. Reading this 2 weeks post-partum, I can't help but reflect and feel thankful for the advances we have made in feminism and modern psychiatry.
An eerie and unsettling account of a woman's post-partum psychosis during the late 1800's. Gilman did a great service by chronicling the psychiatric practices of the time that spiraled a woman deeper into madness.
At face value this a disturbing Gothic story, but more importantly it touches on the misogyny that permeated the author's time period.
This is a story that will be unaffected by time. Despite being written in the 1890's, it will still hit close to home for any new mother. Reading this 2 weeks post-partum, I can't help but reflect and feel thankful for the advances we have made in feminism and modern psychiatry.