Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, apostle of women’s liberation

    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote much about the state of women in society, publishing the still widely acclaimed short story, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892). She also wrote other essays, somewhat colored by her own life experiences. Her father had left his family when she and her brother were…