Home > Feminism > Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Essay Date 2000)

1. Printable Version
2. Download PDF
3. Cite this Page
4. Tweet This

SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN (ESSAY DATE 2000)

SOURCE: Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. "Reading Gilman in the Twenty-First Century." In The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Catherine J. Golden and Joanna Schneider Zangrando, pp. 209-22. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000.

In the following essay, Fishkin discusses Gilman's ideas and writings she deems relevant to contemporary students, and speculates on Gilman's potential reaction to the current condition of women.

When Constance Coiner took a job as an assistant professor at SUNY-Binghamton, she tells us that she

went immediately to the public elementary school, where the principal told me that the kindergarten Ana would attend ended at 10:30 A.M. Having had my expectations affected by 16 years in what Sixty Minutes dubbed the People's Republic of Santa Monica, California, I asked, "And...

Join eNotes

The above is a free excerpt. Get total access to this content with the:

eNotes Pass

1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Essay Date 1898)
4. General Commentary
   1. Mary A. Hill (Essay Date 1980)
   2. Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Essay Date 2000)
5. Title Commentary
   1. The Yellow Wallpaper
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

1. Feminism