The story is told from the perspective of Van Jennings, a student of sociology who, along with two friends, Terry O. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. Herland is a utopian novel written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Yet Gilman also allows for technological progress: electric power is the motive force in industry and urban society, power generated largely by the tides, wind-mills, water mills, and solar engines. She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time, largely with greater social cooperation - equal education and treatment for girls and boys, day-care centers for working women, and other issues still relevant a century later. Moving the Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society. The second book in the trilogy is her land mark classic Herland. (Summary from the text and by TriciaG)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. We now continue the story, told from the viewpoint of Vandyck Jennings, as they return to America. Nicholson being expelled from Herland for bad conduct and Ellador electing to leave Herland with her husband, Vandyck Jennings. Two of the men and one woman leave the country of Herland to return to America Jeff Margrave remaining in Herland with his wife, Celis, a willing citizen Terry O. In Herland, three American young men discover a country inhabited solely by women, who were parthenogenetic (asexual procreation), and had borne only girl children for two thousand years they marry three of the women.

It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner. Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland. Read in English by Amelia Chesley Cate Mackenzie Bhavya KHand Lucretia B.

LibriVox recording of With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Herland trilogy