The eutopian, single-sex land of Herland is characterized by strong fellowship between the inhabitants, which is the source of the profound successfulness and prosperity of the country. A claim is made that the sisterhood and motherhood are at the ideological core of Herland, and due to the introduction of the male narrator to the novel, the clash of strikingly different opinions on solidarity is presented as the major source of tensions between the characters. The article investigates the myths of female and male solidarity as they are presented and deconstructed in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1915 utopian novel Herland. Solidarity, eutopia, female utopia, female solidarity, myth, Herland Abstract
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