Your Herland Topics

Relationships, Courtship, Marriage

1) Why so traditional, love at first sight ? why 3 of them? Do they help or undermine the progressive utopian ideals? (Amanda, Allison)

Hypotheses : need 3 to show an ideal mean between 2 extremes (Monica, Win)

To show 3 levels of masculinity from Alpha-male on down (Anna)

Critique:

Maybe trying to do so but only coming up with annoying male stereotypes & avoiding a real assessment of shared marriage problems (Cam)

To keep the distance between Gilman and 3 opinions all not = hers (Mollie, shares this rhetorical vantage with Monica)

Why the certainty that motherhood is the goal? (Samone)

Religion and Morality

2) Is Gilman rewriting the Expulsion from Eden? Eve as moral problem? Christianity as biggest problem? (Kara, Annie, Shimaya)

Hypotheses: rewriting the culpability of Eve (Kara)

Rewriting the forbidden fruit as sex (Annie)

Critique: does this deny women the right to enjoy sex for pleasure? (Meaghan)

Violence

3 Can they be utopian and willing to kill/banish for life? (Amber)