I’m coming to the end of the novel Herland and I don’t love it as much as The Bluest Eye. I came across a discussion website discussing what it would be like in a society where women held the reigns of power and found the topic quite interesting. One person expressed that they felt that society would be a little better run, more democratically, less violently, and that decision would take a little longer to be made but they would be the right ones. Reading Herland helped sway this particular person’s conclusion about what the society would be like. One person disagreed completely and stated that if you were to replace all men with women in positions of power that there would be no difference in the way women would lead or govern. The author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a social critic and feminist writer in the United States. One would assume she was a feminist based off of her creation of a utopian society made up of entirely women. Gilman aims for familiar targets like the role of women, violence, and the institution of marriage. Because of Gilman’s ideas, she is considered radical and dangerous. I liked that Herland was a short read and had many roots to the key themes and genre. I came across a book review. on Herland that discusses the significance of the short novel. It is a feminist classic and this book review provided a new perspective to the book.