{"product_id":"9781558611580","title":"The Yellow Wall-Paper","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1892, \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Wall-Paper\u003c\/i\u003e is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, this short but powerful masterpiece has the heroine create a reality of her own within the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wall-paper of her bedroom—a pattern that comes to symbolize her own imprisonment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis key women's studies text by a pivotal first-wave feminist writer, lecturer, and activist (1860-1935) is reprinted as it first appeared in \u003ci\u003eNew England Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e in 1892, and contains the essential essay on the author's life and work by pioneering Gilman scholar Elaine R. Hedges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Feminist Press at CUNY, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059517866224,"sku":"9781558611580","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781558611580_p0.jpg?v=1763758026","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781558611580","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}