Herland

A forgotten feminist classic about a civilization without men.

A mirror image to Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, Herland is Charlotte Gilman's feminist utopian novel that attempts to paint a portrait of an all-female society and its resulting accomplishments. Herland is a paradise: no war, no crime, no hunger, no waste, no vanity, no jealousy and no heartbreak.

First appearing as serial installments in Charlotte Gilman's own Forerunner magazine in 1915, Herland was not ...