Herland; Blog Two

           My assumptions about Herland by Charlotte Gilman weren't as I expected. It's literally about a land full of women where no men are to be found. The area is tidy, pretty, and organized. It is all controlled by women, seemingly. This may depict how Gilman would like the world to be or thinks the world already is today. In the book, the women speak a different language from the men who come to investigate the land. This can symbolize that men and women speak a different language, and they have to learn from each other.
          In English class, we never really learned about women's rights, but from what I know, white males were the controllers of things , especially from 1920 to previous years before that. From what I've read, Gilman just flips the script to women being the controllers of the society in "Herland". Since it is a women's land, anyone who intrudes would have to abide by what the people from there tell them to do. Gilman was probably trying to make a statement for the time period in which this book was wriiten since women were trying to gain their rights.

Thoughts Prior to Reading Herland

         Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman looks boring based on the cover of the book along with the back of the book with a side view of a seemingly educated  white women. This most likely means that the book has to do with women's rights which I believe was around the 1920s, more or less. That era  was about  women's right to vote on laws such as alcohol, property, and/or divorce. The prominent  women that I know of during that time are Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Angelina Grimke, and Alice Paul.
          From the title of the book,  it sounds as if the book is describing how the women rule America. It is broken up into "her" which denotes the female and "land" which denotes an area of the world.  This means a female  of an area of the world.  That basically sums it up. The area on the front cover of the book looks cold and has mountains. It could possibly be in areas of the northern part of the United States since the southern part of America is usually warmer because it is closer to the equator. What was previously said is most likely what the book is about.