A review by jasminepeile
Herland and Selected Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3.0

This book is valuable as a piece of feminist due to its inversion of gender roles and the subsequent reaction of the narrator, Van, and the two other male characters. This inversion brings to light how women are diminished outside of Herland and the assumptions made about women by men.

However, Herland also comes with some quite strong racist remarks as well as racist undertones throughout the book, due to Gilman’s strong views on white supremacism. To an extent, the racism present in the book takes away from its feminist focus.