written in 1915, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland imagines society without men

  • Written by: Donna Mazza, Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts, Edith Cowan University
written in 1915, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland imagines society without menRuth Hollick collection. State Library of Victoria

Recent television series Creamerie, a dark comedy from New Zealand where a pandemic quickly kills (almost) all men and male animals, revives the concept of an all-female society with a contemporary take on ideas raised by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) over 100 years ago.

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