Power Politics in Marriage and Medical Attitudes in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: Women’s Literature: From Anti-Slavery to Economic Independence, language: English, abstract: In my paper I would like to examine how Gilman’s 19th century short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" engages with the power politics of marriage and the medical att...