A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FEMINIST APPROACH TO ALL-FEMALE WORLDS IN CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN’S HERLAND AND JOANNA RUSS’S "WHEN IT CHANGED"

Authors : Arzu Özyön

Pages : 91-105

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Publication Date : 2020-06-26

Article Type : Research

Abstract :This study aims to explore Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel Herland (1915) and Joanna Russ’s short story "When It Changed” (1972) with the comparative method in order to determine the similarities and differences between the feminist approaches of two authors and thus seeks to find and reveal the reasons underneath these similarities and differences. Accordingly, quotations taken from two works are analyzed in parallel with each other. The result of the comparative analysis of two works shows that despite the different periods in which these works were situated, they put forward similar concerns regarding women’s oppressed position in private and public lives while expressing it from different literary devices.
Keywords : Feminism, Herland, When It Changed, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joanna Russ