Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leading feminist thinker of her age, is best known for her novella "The Yellow Wallpaper" which is a chilling description of post-partum depression
. This volume also contains "Why I wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'", "Herland" (a novel set in a society consisting solely of women), "Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution", and a selection of her verse.