Underneath the Whirls: Rethinking Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sex, Nervous Breakdown, and S. Weir Mitchell

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz’s study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s personal life, attitudes toward marriage and sexual expression, bout with nervous prostration, and separation from her first husband sheds new light on S. Weir Mitchell’s rest cure and the origins of “The Yellow Wallpaper.”