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'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.' Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman&apos...

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»En storartad skildring av ett sammanbrott och självklart en tidig feministisk berättelse.« | Lotta Olsson, Dagens Nyheter »En sextusen ord lång vandring ner i helvetet.« | Helena Dahlgren , 100 hemskaste Hon har just fött deras barn. Hennes nedst...

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Den här asken rymmer texter av fyra banbrytande kvinnor – fyra föregångsgestalter som trotsade konventionerna och bröt ny mark, och som lämnade efter sig ett arv som – hundrafemtio år senare – fortfarande lever. De var moderniste...

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John är borta hela dagarna, och till och med om nätterna ibland, när hans fall är särskilt allvarliga. Jag är glad att mitt fall inte är allvarligt! Men man blir vansinnigt nedslagen av att vara nervklen.John vet inte hur mycket jag faktiskt lider...

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Den rike playboyen Terry, läkaren Jeff och sociologen Vandyck får höra talas om ett land som befolkas endast av kvinnor. De ger sig ut på jakt efter detta land och lyckas snart bli tillfångatagna av kvinnorna. En högt utvecklad civilisation, fri f...

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Hon har just fött deras barn. Hennes nedstämdhet efter födseln kallar han »hysteri«. Han hyr vindsvåningen i ett gammalt hus på landet. Här ska hon bara vila - förbjuden att lämna sitt rum. I stället för att bli bättre börjar hon hallucinera och f...

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OBS! Nyöversättning! Den gula tapeten av Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) väcker frågor om makt och maktlöshet, om familj och könsroller, om över- och underordning, om normalitet och avvikelse, om galenskap och frihet. Det är en suggestiv sk...

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INTRODUCED BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'Even if the themes being explored might seem irrelevant . . . this is not the case' GUARDIAN ...

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Delightfully humorous account of a feminist utopia in which 3 male explorers stumble upon an all-female society isolated in a distant part of the earth. Early 20th-century vehicle for Gilman's then-unconventional views of male-female behavior...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her e...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilmans progressive views on feminism and mental health are powerfully showcased in her two most famous stories. The Yellow Wallpaper skillfully charts one woman's struggle with depression whilst Herland is an entertaining i...

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Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the t...

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»En storartad skildring av ett sammanbrott och en tidig feministisk berättelse.« Lotta Olsson, DN »En sextusen ord lång vandring ner i helvetet.« Helena Dahlgren, 100 hemskaste Hon har just fött deras barn. Hennes nedstämdhet efter födseln kallar ...

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She has just given birth to their child. He labels her postpartum depression as »hysteria.« He rents the attic in an old country house. Here, she is to rest alone - forbidden to leave her room. Instead of improving, she starts hallucinating, imagi...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will'Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her e...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her e...

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'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.'Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist hor...

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A collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer's most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist think...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. It features her pioneering femini...

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I have nothing to offer the world but what I think...I think that the thing that I am here to do is a big thing - the truth. I see deep basic truths; and that I have been given unusual powers of expression. I truly hope that my life will count for...

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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Jessica Brown Findlay, Jamael Westman and Sheila Atim. ''The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing'' Written with barely...

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First serialized in 1914, Social Ethics attempts to convince readers that individualist ethics have failed to make the world a safe place for children, and that we cannot progress to a fully social ethics unless we understand the morality of colle...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1869-1935) was one of the leading intellectuals of the American women's movement in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Moving beyond the struggle for suffrage, Gilman confronted an even larger problem-ec...

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On the eve of World War I, an all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male explorers who are now forced to re-examine their assumptions about women's roles in society.

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First serialized in 1914, Social Ethics attempts to convince readers that individualist ethics have failed to make the world a safe place for children, and that we cannot progress to a fully social ethics unless we understand the morality of colle...

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Originally serialized in 1915 in The Forerunner, and never before published in book form, The Dress of Women presents Gilman's feminist sociological analysis of clothing in modern society. Gilman explores the social and functional basis for clothi...

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Originally serialized in 1915 in The Forerunner, and never before published in book form, The Dress of Women presents Gilman's feminist sociological analysis of clothing in modern society. Gilman explores the social and functional basis for c...

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On the eve of World War I, an all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male explorers who are now forced to re-examine their assumptions about women's roles in society.

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Enjoy 7 thought-provoking stories that employ charm and humor to examine relations between the sexes from a feminist perspective. In addition to the title story, an 1892 classic that recounts a woman's descent into madness, this collection in...

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