Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“This anthology beautifully reflects the intellectual range and depth of Gilman's work. It provides a valuable critique of many of her perspectives while respecting her originality and genius—as a fiction writer, poet, and theorist for the turn-of-the-century women's movement.”—Mary A. Hill, author of The Making of a Radical Feminist

“An essential collection of essays covering Gilman's range of genres, written by new and established scholars, this volume offers timely reassessments of well-known titles and topics and incisive introductions to such lesser-known materials as the one-act play Three Women, His Religion and Hers, and newly published poetry.”—Carol F. Kessler, professor of English, American studies, and women's studies, Penn State University, Delaware County Campus

“These essays exemplify all the virtues of interdisciplinarity in consideration of that most multidisciplined of writers, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The contributors simultaneously clarify and complicate our understanding of some of the more vexed areas of Gilman's work by engaging saliently with her theories of ethnicity, class, prostitution, and the dynamics of gender; posing difficult questions to contemporary feminist scholars; and providing sensitive and insightful guidance to a well-chosen and wide range of texts.”—Janet Beer, author of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton
and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction

“…it is an invaluable addition to Gilman scholarship in its interdisciplinarity, its contributors' willingness to step beyond the categories of women's history, biography, or literary study. What a fitting tribute for a woman who herself refused to be identified with a single social cause. A must for every Gilman scholar, I recommend it also to those interested in American socialist thought, Progressivism, and turn-of-the-century gender, race and ethnic relations.”—Lia Vella, Utopian Studies: Journal of The Society for Utopian Studies