"A Woman's Utopia"

1907 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935). “A Woman’s Utopia.” The Times Magazine 1 (January - March 1907): 215-20, 369-76, 498-504. To be continued but not. An additional chapter can be found in the Gilman Collection at Radcliffe College (Cambridge, MA). Rpt., including the first publication of the additional chapter, in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2^nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 133-74 with an editor’s note on 131-32. PSt

A feminist eutopia with Gilman writing “Now is the time for practical utopias” (Kessler 135). The eutopia was brought about through a new religion with a social conscience and, even more, by women no longer being treated as inferiors and becoming involved in politics and the work force. Radical improvement of the environment. Cooperative housekeeping. Female author.