UMF New Commons Program features next nominated work, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte …

FARMINGTON — “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a short story illustrating the attitudes towards the mental and physical health of women in the 19th century, is the next featured topic by the University of Maine at Farmington’s New Commons Project.Published in 1892, the story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an early work of American feminist literature that depicts the gradual mental breakdown of a woman protesting the professional and societal oppression of women. At that time, many medical professionals saw women as weak and fragile and needing to be controlled.Gilman’s own devastating experience with depression and her physician’s flawed remedy inspired her to write the story. She used her writing to explore the role of women and paved the way for writers such as Alice Walker and Sylvia Plath.The UMF New Commons events featuring “The Yellow Wallpaper” are free and will run between April 7 -23. The following resources will help prepare for the events:OPEN TO THE PUBLIC EVENTS:“The Yellow Wallpaper” Book GiveawayPick up a free copy of The Yellow Wallpaper (while available.) Your new copy will be a reissuing of the 1973 Feminist Press edition, with an afterword by Elaine R. Hedges that solidified the text’s importance in gender studies scholarship.Wednesday, April…
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