I enjoyed the first story much more than the second, but, that might be because I liked that idea of womanhood better. Their value is minuscule and their thoughts and feelings are downplayed. Nothing much is expected of them except to sit around and look pretty and raise children. In this story, women have their place in the home, and that's it. A very interesting look into a feministic way of life that is very peaceful, intelligent and civilized."The Yellow Wallpaper" looks at the life of a wife and mother who is losing herself into a postpartum madness. One man is your typical macho guy who wants to dominate the women one man is wimpy and happy to be subservient to women the third is very much like the women in thoughts and actions.
They find the men interesting and want to learn about them, maybe in hopes of including fatherhood in their world. Smart, loving, caring, trusting, encouraging - they didn't lose their minds when the 3 men came to their land to master them.
Motherhood is their religion and they achieve pregnancies without men. Herland was full of women who had transcended sexuality to a higher level. Usually stories with women-only civilizations show them as busty, scantily clad Amazonian girls growling to dominate men. I appreciated the fact that this story showed females in a way that was not condescending in stereotypes. In "Herland", we see a society made up of women only. In this duo of tales, Charlotte Perkins Gilman takes on very different views about womanhood.
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