Early feminist author and advocate Charlotte Perkins Gilman is today best remembered for the haunting short story "e;The Yellow Wallpaper,"e; which recounts the female protagonist's descent into madness. In addition to her prodigious body of fictional work, Gilman wrote a great deal of non-fiction, including scholarly and persuasive essays about equality and the female condition. This long-form essay details the misogyny that was pervasive in Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.