"The Yellow Wallpaper" Cultural Context

"For the benefit of the girl about to graduate" 1890

"The Efficient Housewife" 1910s

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/cookbooks/CK0019/CK0019-05-72dpi.jpeg

"Masculine Superiority Fever": Making Sense of "Spheres"

http://www1.assumption.edu/WHW/workshop/untitled1.html

"The Housewife"

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/rodriguez/GildedAge/Gilded%20Age%20Advice.html

Please explore some of these sites before/during/after your reading of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and be prepared to speak about the cultural context of the short story during our class discussion.