7/6/2023 0 Comments The yellow walls![]() (Gilman based the story on her own experiences after giving birth.)Īn incisive film adaptation of this groundbreaking story - one that captures the quiet horror of how the world has in the past and still today fails to acknowledge that women have inner lives that need nurturing - would be very welcome. This is as true today as it was in 1892, when feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her best-known work, short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It is the tale, told in the form of diary entries, of a woman descending into apparent psychotic madness after her doctor-husband prescribes a socially isolating, intellectually stultifying “rest cure” during a bout of what we would recognize today as postpartum depression. ![]() The patriarchal bullshit of the world drives women crazy. ![]()
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