Yellow Flower

HERLAND

Welcome to Herland, the sanctuary of the feminine mind and creation.

What brings us here today are our dreams and the path we have long been on, despi- te the obstacles, the dogmas, the ever-shifting expectations and standards set for women as well as centuries of masculine imposition we have struggled to over- come -much like the society composed entirely of women that Charlotte Perkins Gilman describes in her utopian novel, Herland. The heroes and storytellers in this issue might come from different cultures and societies, have disparate lifestyles, but essentially, they all have one thing in common: being a woman.