
In the late 19th century, at a time when women were challenging traditional ideas about gender that excluded them from political and intellectual life, medical and scientific experts drew on notions of female weakness to justify inequality between the sexes.
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 famous tale served as an indictment of the medical profession and the social conventions restricting women’s professional and creative opportunities.
The traveling exhibition and companion website explore a short story that challenged 19th-century notions of female weakness and social conventions that restricted women's professional and creative opportunities. 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 rejected these ideas in a short story titled "The Yellow Wall-Paper.”
The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wall-Paper" will be on view at IMSS from January 27th - March 8th.


