Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.7, University of Duisburg-Essen (Anglophone Studies), course: A Survey of American Literature, language: English, abstract: Showing how women in the 19th century were suppressed and underestimated by men as well as the rising emancipation will be the main aim of this term paper. Therefore, it will contain explanations and determines of the social and medical attitude towards women in the 19th century in reference to Charlotte Perkins Gilman´s short story "The Yellow Wallpaper".