Nebraska College Preparatory Academy

 

Date of this Version

Spring 2015

Document Type

Article

Citation

Poster presented for Nebraska College Preparatory Academy Senior Capstone Project, May 2015

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Copyright 2015 Lizeth Fraire

Abstract

In her novel, Herland, Gilman illustrates a flourishing civilization whose only occupants are women. "Gilman envisions this emancipated 'new woman' as ‘honester, braver, stronger, more healthier and skillful and able and free, more human in all ways’" (Lathrop 8). By comparing Herland to the women in the Victorian Age and even modern society, it’s obvious that they thrive because they do not have a notion of what they are supposed to be because of their gender.

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