When the explorers reach their destination, they proceed with caution, hiding the biplane they arrive in, and trying to keep themselves hidden in the forests that border the land. The men speculate about what a society of women would be like, each guessing differently based on the stereotype of women which he holds most dear: Jeff regarding women as things to be served and protected Terry viewing them as things to be conquered and won. The three friends do not entirely believe the rumors because they are unable to think of a way how human reproduction could occur without males. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of uncharted land rumored to be home to a society consisting entirely of women. The story is told from the perspective of Vandyck 'Van' Jennings, a sociology student who, along with two friends, Terry O. It was not published in book form until 1979. The book is often considered to be the middle volume in her utopian trilogy, preceded by Moving the Mountain (1911). It was first published in monthly installments as a serial in 1915 in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 19, with its sequel, With Her in Ourland beginning immediately thereafter in the January 1916 issue.

The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who bear children without men ( parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction). Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Print (hardback & paperback), E-book, MP3

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