A Woman’s Utopia Try to imagine living in a world that only exist of women and children. Even with no such thing as a male domination anywhere you look. In the 1900’s women were viewed to stay at home with the children, cook, and clean the house. With the exception in the Feminist Utopian world. A Utopian world according to “The Chambers dictionary” (2015) it is “any real or imaginary state or place believed to be ideal, perfect, and excellent” (Chambers Dictionary). There are no such things as crime, violence, or diseases on this island. Although the women depend on themselves to cook, clean, take care of the children if they want any children, and to work. In Charlotte Gilman’s short novel “Herland” (1915) she creates a world with only women who shows they can survive without men. The Utopian society provoked in “Herland” is a more desirable life style to live according to the everyday American house wife. The women in Herland are viewed as independent and self-taught, which is what the American house wives today would like to be viewed as …show more content…
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