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This paper examines how Gilman’s feminist vision is explored in her utopian novel “Herland.” In Herland, in which women possess authoritative powers, there is expressed utopian vision: there “were no enemies, they were all sisters and friends.” Gilman’s description of a women’s world, one without men, as utopia, is itself a way to criticize the patriarchy suggested in the male utopian tradition. Gilman believed in the betterment of the species, just as she believed that all life on earth progressed toward evolution. She felt that society could be improved through the powers of women rather than men. Gilman’s idea of women’s regenerative power is influenced by the feminist reformer Lester Frank Ward, who relied on Darwinian discourse but manipulated it in order to prove the natural superiority of women. Women’s bodies (reproductive function), according to Gilman, can create healthy reproduction of the social world. Maternity is evolutionarily superior to the simple act of reproduction because it occurred “late in the course of evolution, so higher in the true measure of growth.” This idea of maternal reproduction depends on eugenic evolutionary theory which considers that women’s reproductive processes, such as the right choice of marriage partner and birth control, can improve the social condition of women and the race. Herland suggests a new vision that maternity and feminism and utopia can be integral to each other--women’s reproductive bodies become the reproducers of a utopian society.
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