ENGL 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, Postpartum Depression
12 Jan 2015
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Energies towards promote status of women within her society. American writer suppression of women a handicap to society. Daughter after she got married postpartum depression. Dr. mitchell ran institutions where they would do rest-cure, any time women had hysterical tendencies they would rest. The yellow wallpaper not allowed to write. Gilman felt it was an ineffective mode to cure her. Hysteria greek word for womb/uterus built into this is the idea that only women can suffer from it. Word is inherently feminine reaction assumed by women. Patriarchy: any culture or society structured around the idea that men are superior. After perkins-gilman had postpartum, she realized she did not want to be a wife or mother divorced husband, he married best friend. She wrote a lot about women and economics, well-known journalist, spoke about the role of women within the workplace. Side career writing fiction primarily focused on feminist ideas.
