![]() ![]() Stories, poetry, and nonfiction writing by Gilman on topics such as birth control, capital punishment, and eugenics provide a rich context for the novel. This edition reproduces the text originally published in The Forerunnerin 1915, including several passages omitted from other editions. As the explorers study Herland culture, they also rethink their own. Initially skeptical, the explorers come to realize that Herland has evolved into an ideal, cooperative, matriarchal society-fertile, peaceful, and clean-by selectively reproducing the women's best attributes. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's provocative utopian novel Herland, first published in 1915, tells its story through the observations of three male explorers who discover a land inhabited solely by women the women reproduce through parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). ![]()
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