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Moving the Mountain by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Moving the Mountain

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Start Publishing PD · Print & ebook · May 15, 2024

A Classics pick for readers exploring Moving the Mountain.

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Who it’s for
Gilman’s program for social reform links practical changes with questions that remain relevant.
Genres
Feminist Fiction, Sci-Fi, Dystopian
Published
Start Publishing PD, May 15, 2024

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About this book

Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. The second book in the trilogy is her land mark classic Herland. Moving Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society.

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She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time largely with greater social cooperation - equal education and treatment for girls and boys day-care centers for working women and other issues still relevant a century later.

Reform in View

Gilman’s program for social reform links practical changes with questions that remain relevant.

Come here for

  • Ideas about equal education and treatment for girls and boys
  • A century-old case for social cooperation

Expect

  • Proposals including day-care centers for working women
  • A focus on rationality, efficiency, and cooperation

Where it sits

Feminist Fiction68%
Dystopian57%
Sci-Fi57%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • The Classics
  • Literary Fiction
  • Sci-Fi
Authors
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher
Start Publishing PD
Published
May 15, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
The Classics