| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 32 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Herland Trilogy ; bk. 4 |
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
Herland Trilogy. Spoken word ; bk. 4
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Various Readers. |
| Summary |
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. The story is told from the perspective of Vandyck "Van" Jennings, a student of sociology who, along with two friends (Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave), forms an expedition party to explore an area of uncharted land where it is rumored lives a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not entirely believe the rumors because they are unable to think of a way that human reproduction could occur without males. The men speculate about what a society of women would be like, each guessing differently based on the stereotype of women that he holds most dear: Jeff regarding women as things to be served and protected; Terry viewing them as things to be conquered and won. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Utopias -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Black humor (Literature)
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Utopian fiction.
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| Added Author |
Lane, Ann J., 1931-
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781518939624 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1518939627 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11800622 |
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