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The Herland Trilogy Omnibus: Moving the Mountain, Herland, with Her in Ourland

Name: The Herland Trilogy Omnibus: Moving the Mountain, Herland, with Her in Ourland
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ISBN: 9781627933544

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

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Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. The second book in the trilogy is her land mark classic Herland. Moving Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society. She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time, largely with greater social cooperation - equal education and treatment for girls and boys, day-care centers for working women, and other issues still relevant a century later. Yet Gilman also allows for technological progress: electric power is the motive force in industry and urban society, power generated largely by the tides, wind-mills, water mills, and solar engines. Herland is a utopian novel written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. The story is told from the perspective...

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2022

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Start Publishing LLC

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

1627933549

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9781627933544