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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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| Paperback | 9780486298573

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Book Description

Seven thought-provoking stories employ charm and humor to examine relations between the sexes from a feminist perspective. In addition to the title story, an 1892 classic that recounts a woman’s descent into madness, this collection includes "Cottagette," "Turned," "Mr. Peebles’ Heart," and more.Continue

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My professor for women's health assigned this book and it's the best thing I've read all year. Our current unit was mental health and the more I looked into the story the more I found allusions to OCD, schizotypal personality disorder, acute social phobia and even allusions to the confusing effects ... (continue)

My professor for women's health assigned this book and it's the best thing I've read all year. Our current unit was mental health and the more I looked into the story the more I found allusions to OCD, schizotypal personality disorder, acute social phobia and even allusions to the confusing effects of psychoactives. And the ending! Damn!
People are discussing what brought her down, and a lot say her husband oppressed her. That's true, but somewhere she makes it sound as though her ailment was inherited: “a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house and reach the height of romantic felicity – but that would be asking too much of fate!” like the house is a metaphor for madness. “There's one comfort – the baby is well and happy, and does not have to occupy this nursery with the horrid wallpaper...What a fortunate escape!” But it's all the same house, maybe the baby will grow up crazy too, especially if it's female

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