The Woman in the American Family

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Sehr gut, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her short storyThe Yellow Wallpaperat a time when women’s destiny was to bear children and to enjoy the pleasures of motherhood. In a typical marriage of the time it was understood that the wife would give birth to a c...