The Fiction of Ethnography in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland.
In the introduction to Women Writing Culture (1995)--an anthology of writing by feminist anthropologists compiled, in part, in response to the masculinism of the highly influential Writing Culture (1986) anthology--Ruth Behar proposes that Charlotte Perkins Gilman could be a starting point for an al...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 331 - 351 |
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