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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American feminist, social activist, and writer. Gilman served as a role model for all the future feminists and female writers that followed her. Gilman is now best remembered for writing The Yellow Wallpaper, an influential short story, and Herland, a classic utopian novel. The Home: Its Work and Influence, published in 1903, is a book in which Gilman criticizes the domesticity of women during her time. Gilman argued that women need to be economically independent.