http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/charlotte-perkins-gilman Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:09:42 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:09:42 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/898/trauma-reenactment-in-the-gothic-loop-a-study-on-structures-of-circularity-in-gothic-fiction By Andrea Juranovszky - Ever since its original emergence, Gothic fiction has been shaped by a unique narrative direction that is often described by scholars and readers alike as retrospective, repetitive, or circular in nature. Gothic texts progress as if through a series of flashbacks, always reviving deeds of the past in order to point out a problem, which, however strongly rooted in some ancient heritage, prevails in the present and calls for immediate resolution. David B. Morris defines the typically Gothic vision of history as one where “the past interpenetrates the present time, as if events were never entirely... Fri, 23 May 2014 10:46 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/898/trauma-reenactment-in-the-gothic-loop-a-study-on-structures-of-circularity-in-gothic-fiction http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/507/the-performance-of-femininity-in-charlotte-perkins-gilmans-herland-and-simone-de-beauviors-second-sex By Hayley Cavataro - Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novella Herland explores a separatist feminist utopia. Published in 1915, Herland begins when three men – a womanizer, a Southern gentleman fixated on woman as domestic angels, and a narrator who represents a neutral opinion – stumble upon a land inhabited only by females. This nation, dubbed ‘Herland,’ is a highly developed civilization filled with feminine imagery (every tree bears fruit in this fecund land). A utopia of sorts, it’s a land that values progress, peace, and order above all. As the men adjust to their nascent existence... Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:34 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/507/the-performance-of-femininity-in-charlotte-perkins-gilmans-herland-and-simone-de-beauviors-second-sex http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/111/examining-oppression-through-the-lives-and-stories-of-sylvia-plath-and-charlotte-perkins-gilman By Sandra L. Meyer - Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar is about a young woman named Esther Greenwood entering college in the early 1950’s, a time before the second wave of the women’s movement had been implemented. Esther has dreams of becoming a famous writer while most of the women around her dream of finding a husband. Esther does not fit in with these women - no matter how hard she tries she knows she is meant for something more than domestic life. Her struggles between the world she knows and the world she wants create an inner turmoil that eventually sends her to an institution where she receives... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:45 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/111/examining-oppression-through-the-lives-and-stories-of-sylvia-plath-and-charlotte-perkins-gilman