The Yellow Wallpaper | Related Titles/Adaptations
In her nonfiction work Women and Economics (1898), Gilman argues that men and women are more similar than different, and that women should have the same social and economic freedoms as men, including the right to work.
In The Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria (1887), Dr. S. Weir Mitchell explains his treatment of nervous prostration in women. He advocates a "restcure," or complete bed rest, believing that intellectual, literary, and artistic pursuits are destructive to women's mental health.
The Madwomen in the Attic (1979), by...
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