Synopses & Reviews
This extraordinary casebook brings together 100 years of critical discussion on the feminist classic The Yellow Wallpaper, providing crucial historical background and rich interpretations of this complex and compelling work.
Table of Contents
One hundred years of reading "The yellow wallpaper" / Catherine Golden -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- From Fat and blood : and how to make them / S. Weir Mitchell -- Why I wrote "The yellow wallpaper" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- From "A reminiscent introduction" / Willian Dean Howells -- From The living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman : an autobiography / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The psychiatric case history of Isabella Shawe Thackeray / Stanely Cobb -- From "Stereotypes of femininity in a theory of sexual evolution" / Jill Conway -- From the introduction to The oven birds : American women on womanhood, 1820-1920 / Gail Parker -- The "sick" women of the upper classes / Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English -- From "'The fashionable diseases' : women's complaints and their treatment in nineteenth-century America" / Ann Douglas Wood.