Moving the Mountain: A Utopia of 1940
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A man lost in Tibet for thirty years comes home to an America that has fixed everything — work, housing, food, the position of women — and has to be persuaded that it is not a trick. Charlotte Perkins Gilman published this utopia in 1911, four years before "Herland", and made the reform economic rather than biological. The interest is in what she thought could be changed in one generation. Sixty plates of city life by John Sloan and Paul Klee, from Greenwich Village rooftops to Berlin streets, picture the urban world Gilman's hero must learn to see anew.
A man lost in Tibet for thirty years comes home to an America that has fixed everything — work, housing, food, the position of women — and has to be persuaded that it is not a trick. Charlotte Perkins Gilman published this utopia in 1911, four years before "Herland", and made the reform economic ...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American writer and lecturer born in Hartford, Connecticut. She wrote on women's economic independence and edited her own monthly magazine, The Forerunner, writing most of each issue herself. Her works include The Yellow Wallpaper, Women and Economics, Herland, and The Home.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American writer and lecturer born in Hartford, Connecticut. She wrote on women's economic independence and edited her own monthly magazine, The Forerunner, writing most of each issue herself. Her works include The Yellow Wallpaper, Women and Economics, ...
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