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This book is the sequel to Herland. In the sequel, the couple begins traveling around the world outside "her country", interviewing people, taking photos and taking notes, discussing history, religion, war, raising children, the role of women, how to treat immigrants, women's suffrage and more. Charlotte P. Gilman, a pioneering American feminist writer and social reformer, described an isolated female utopia in "Her Country". There, they reproduce through parthenogenesis. Their society is stable, free from wars and disputes, and free from domination and being ruled. In the story, three young male scientists found this place during an expedition. After experiencing various adventures, two of them were expelled, and the wife of one of them, a member of "Her Country", chose to follow him out. The three returned to the outside world.

The author constructs a female-only utopia in "Her Country". From escape to freedom, from madness to self-realization, the painfully struggling Gilman in "The Yellow Wallpaper" has transformed into a mature and confident feminist writer, using words to construct a female utopia that makes men fear, disdain, or admire. Through the constant interaction between the three men who accidentally broke into another country and the women from other countries, the social norms and ideologies that we are accustomed to and turn a blind eye to in the real society are gradually questioned, subverted, and eventually completely collapsed. The representative short work "The Yellow Wallpaper" adopts the first-person "I" narration and uses many female Gothic elements to reveal the confinement of women in patriarchal society. More importantly, any woman who tries to resist faces the danger of being judged as crazy. This work had a profound influence on future feminist literature.