What is "herland"

Herland may refer to:

• Doug Herland (1951–1991), 1984 Olympic Bronze Medalist (Rowing)
• Herland (novel), 1915 utopian novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Hærland, a village in Eidsberg, Norway
• Anna Sofie Herland (1913–1990)
• Hanne Nabintu Herland (born 1966), Norwegian author and debater
• Hugh Herland (1330–1411), 14th-century medieval English carpenter
• Sigmund Herland (1865–1954)

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It first appeared as a serial in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916. The book is the middle volume in her utopian trilogy; it was preceded by Moving the Mountain (1911), and followed with a sequel, With Her in Ourland (1916). It was not published in book form until 1979.