Herland

Herland is the story of three men who stumble upon a society populated entirely by women. This culture is superior in virtually all ways to the world of the men. The narrator of the book is one of the visiting men , and he is constantly in awe of the perfection of the country. In writing Herland , Gilman attempted to address the problems that go hand in hand with gender roles. By creating a female utopia, …

…is subjected to the same treatment as are all other social values , as part of our primarily cultural, not biological, package. (109) Gilman believed that women were restricted by their roles in society. She uses a society made up of females to show that women were confined by their roles of society , and were capable of much more. The women of Herland represent what a woman can become without the restrictions being put on them. (Simpson )