Charlotte Perkins Gilman Books

Gilman's novel follows Vivian Lane from a New England community toward new choices about work, marriage, and health.

Gilman challenges familiar assumptions about childhood, discipline, motherhood, servants, and society's responsibility for raising children.

Three male explorers discover an all-female society and find their assumptions about gender overturned.

A landmark psychological short story about confinement, medical authority, and a woman’s mind under pressure.

Gilman connects women’s economic dependence with marriage, domestic labor, childcare, and the organization of modern social life.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman examines how male-centered assumptions shape literature, education, institutions, and the organization of everyday social life.