Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction | Jennifer S. Tuttle and Carol Farley Kessler
Part I. Biographical and Critical Overviews
Chapter 1. “that pure New England stock”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Construction of Identity | Denise D. Knight
Chapter 2. Looking Backward: Rereading Gilman in the Early Twenty-First Century | Catherine J. Golden
Part II. New Texts
Chapter 3. The Torn Voice in “The Giant Wistaria” and “The Unnatural Mother” | Jill Rudd
Chapter 4. An “Absent Mother”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mag—Marjorie, and the Politics of Maternal Responsibility | Charlotte J. Rich
Chapter 5. Turning “The Balsam Fir” into Mag—Marjorie: Generic Transposition in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Imaginative Economy | Frederick Wegener
Chapter 6. “The Same Revulsion against Them All”: Ida Tarbell and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Suffrage Dialogue | Aleta Feinsod Cane
Chapter 7. Doing It “man-fashion”: Gender Performance in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Unpunished | Jill Bergman
Part III. New Contexts
Chapter 8. “There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me”: An Alternative Reading of Neurasthenia | Jennifer Lunden
Chapter 9. The Yellow Newspaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Sensational Journalism | Sari Edelstein
Chapter 10. The Madwoman’s Other Sisters: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gloria Naylor, and the Re-Inscription of Loss | Caroline Brown
Chapter 11. Feminist Humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Contributors
Index