Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - Kristin Carter-Sanborn (essay date summer 2000)
Kristin Carter-Sanborn (essay date summer 2000)
SOURCE: “Restraining Order: The Imperialist Anti-Violence of Charlotte Perkins Gilman,” in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 2, summer, 2000, pp. 1-36.
[In the following essay, Carter-Sanborn argues that Gilman's feminist antiviolence in Herland models American imperial violence.]
Power is a familiar growth— Not foreign—not to be— Beside us like a bland Abyss In every company—
—Emily Dickinson
“You see, they had … no wars. They had … no kings, and no priests, and no aristocracies. They were sisters” (Herland 61). As sisters, the denizens of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel Herland ostensibly embody a utopia of non-violence, non-hierarchy, and, as a result, an unparalleled level of cultural fertility and social concord. It should not...
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