Moving the Mountain

John Robertson awakens after thirty years of amnesia following an accident in Tibet. He regains his memory upon seeing his sister and returns with her to the United States to discover a dramatically altered world shaped by the empowerment of women and societal changes.Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner and then in book form, both in 1911. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The novel was also the first volume in Gilman's utopian trilogy; it was followed by Herland (1915) and its sequel, With Her in Ourland (1916).