Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

Class 8: Repression, Resistance, and Female Consciousness: Debating Themes of Madness and Liberation in a Classic American Literary Text

Outline

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Read

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. 1892. 

Supplementary Readings

The first three readings can be found in: Erskine, Thomas L., and Connie L. Richards. The Yellow Wallpaper. Rutgers University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780813519944.  

• Gilman, C.P. “The ‘Nervous Breakdown’ of Women.” pp. 67–76.
• Mitchell, S. Weir. Selections from “Fat & Blood, Wear & Tear, and Doctor & Patient.” pp. 105–111.
• Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. pp. 115–12.
• Hedges, Elaine R. “‘Out at Last’? ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ after Two Decades of Feminist Criticism.” In Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Hall and Co., 1992. pp: 222–233. ISBN: 9780816173150.

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