The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
Exhibit Dates
Exhibit on display at Booth Library September 23 - November 2, 2013About the Exhibit
During a time when women were challenging traditional ideas about gender that excluded them from political and intellectual life, artist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who was discouraged from pursuing a career to preserve her health, rejected these ideas in a terrifying short story titled "The Yellow Wall-Paper." The exhibition Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wall-Paper" explores the story behind Gilman's indictment of the medical profession and the social conventions restricting women's professional and creative opportunities.The traveling portion of the exhibit was produced by the Exhibition Program of the National Library of Medicine.
