Table of Contents:
  • The two Mrs. Stetsons and the "romantic summer" / Cynthia J. Davis
  • When the marriage of true minds admits impediments : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and William Dean Howells / Joanne B. Karpinski
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman versus Ambrose Bierce : the literary politics of gender in fin-de-siècle California / Lawrence J. Oliver and Gary Scharnhorst
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Randolph Hearst, and the practice of ethical journalism / Denise D. Knight
  • "The Overthrow" of gynaecocentric culture : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Lester Frank Ward / Judith A. Allen
  • Mrs. Stetson and Mr. Shaw in Suffolk : animadversions and obstacles / Janice J. Kirkland
  • The sins of the mothers and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's covert alliance with Catharine Beecher / Monika Elbert
  • Gilman's The crux and Owen Wister's The Virginian : intertextuality and "woman's manifest destiny" / Jennifer S. Tuttle
  • Creating great women : Mary Austin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Melody Graulich
  • From near-dystopia to utopia : a source for Herland in Inez Haynes Gillmore's Angel Island / Charlotte Rich
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman's With her in Ourland : Herland meets heterodoxy / Lisa A. Long
  • "All is not sexuality that looks it" : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Karen Horney on Freudian psychoanalysis / Mary M. Moynihan.