Table of Contents:
  • Texts and contexts in Gilman's world: a biographical approach / Denise D. Knight
  • Ideology and aesthetics in teaching Gilman's works / Gary Totten
  • Gilman's socialism as background to her writings / Mark W. Van Wienen
  • Placing Gilman in a context of intellectual debate / Michael J. Kiskis
  • Teaching Gilman in the context of her short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction / Michelle N. McEvoy
  • Teaching "The yellow wall-paper" through the lens of language / Catherine J. Golden
  • Finding patterns in the text: close reading "The yellow wall-paper" as an exercise / Michelle A. Massé
  • The use of audiovisual material as an aid in teaching "The yellow wall-paper" / Guiyou Huang
  • A psychological approach to teaching "The yellow wall-paper" / Judith Harris
  • Using role-playing in teaching "The yellow wall-paper" / Judith Harris
  • Using role-playing in teaching "The yellow wall-paper" / Carol Farley Kessler and Priscilla Clement
  • Teaching "The yellow wall-paper" through French feminist literary criticism / Janet Gabler-Hover
  • Teaching Herland in context / Melanie V. Dawson
  • This land is Herland, this land is our land? Teaching Herland in a course on community and identity in American literature / Wendy Ripley
  • Confronting issues of race, class, and ethnicity in Herland / Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams
  • The intellectual context of Herland: the social theories of Lester Ward / Gary Scharnhorst
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and the Gender of science / Lisa A. Long
  • Teaching "The yellow wall-paper" in an introductory literature course / David Faulkner
  • Teaching the politics of difference and "The yellow wall-paper" in women's literature classes / Mary C. Carruth
  • Teaching "The yellow wall-paper" in a class on women's autobiography / Kara Virginia Donaldson
  • Teaching Herland in an American literature course / Joanne B. Karpinski
  • Teaching "The yellow wall-paper" in the context of American literary realism and naturalism / Cynthia J. Davis.