TY - ABST T1 - "Moving the Mountain" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed feminist eutopia. "'Moving the Mountain' is a short distance Utopia, a baby Utopia, a little one that can grow. It involves no other change than a change of mind, the mere awakening of people, especially the women, to existing possibilities. It indicates what people might do, real people, now living, in thirty years--if they would" (6). No poverty, no pollution, no racial problems, no gender conflict, and little disease. A two-hour workday is required, but most work four.

JF - The Forerunner VL - 2.1 - 12 N1 -

Repub. New York: Charlton Company, 1911. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 37-149. This ed. compares The Forerunner version with the Clarion version and includes the brief "Preface" from the Clarion version that was not in The Forerunner (37). Excerpt published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 178-88; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 159-73.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Aunt Mary's Pie Plant" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Women establish businesses and turn a small town into a eutopia.

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Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 117-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Woman's Utopia" Y1 - 1907 A1 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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. 

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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. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 133-74 with an editor's note on 131-32.

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