When I Was a Witch & Other Stories

A powerful collection of early feminist stories from the activist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman created a world that could be viewed from the feminist gaze. She focused on how women were not just stay-at-home mothers they were expected to be but also people who had dreams, who were able to travel and work just as men did, and whose goals included a society where women were just as important as men. In the early 1900s this was striking and revolutionary. The stories in this collection are: ”A Coincidence”; ”According To Solomon”, ”An Offender”, ”A Middle-Sized Artist”, ”Martha”s Mother”, ”Her Housekeeper”, ”When I Was A Witch”, ”Making a Living”, ”A Coincidence, The Cottagette”, ”The Boys and the Butter”, ”My Astonishing Dodo”, and ”A Word In Season”. Foundations of Feminist Fiction. The early 1900s saw a quiet revolution in literature dominated by male adventure heroes. Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the male gaze to write from a different gender perpective, sometimes with female protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom to write on any subject whatsoever.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Flame Tree Publishing

13. juni 2023

13. juni 2023

PAPERBACK

288

9781804175804

197 mm

129 mm

28 mm