![]() ![]() It’s a choice I’m not sure if I’m personally on-board with. But instead, she chose to take the voice of a man. Gilman, a woman writing about an all-female society, easily could have written from the perspective of one of Herland’s inhabitants. Couple Herland with the author’s poem, “ The Cattle Train,” and one must wonder if Gilman herself was vegetarian. The author was, of course, a feminist, but it seems that back in the early 20th century, she was making a connection between women’s rights and animal rights that so many vegans discuss today. ![]() The fact that Gilman chose to make her utopia vegetarian is interesting, to say the least. In Herland, there is no war, conflict, or domination. Well, Gilman covered that: the women reproduce reproduce via parthenogenesis, or asexual reproduction.Īccording to the author, this leads to an ideal society – a utopia. “But what about reproduction?” you might ask. That’s right: it’s been centuries since there have been men in Herland. In Herland, three men stumble upon a society made up exclusively of women – and this society has been this way for many, many years. This novel, published in Gilman’s magazine The Forerunner in 1915, does not shy away from subverting the male-dominated system. Herland is the second book in a series, but it can easily be read on its own. ![]()
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