A brown-bag lunch discussion of the short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, in Room 2032 of the University of Iowa Main Library.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a 19th century writer, was discouraged from pursuing a career to preserve her health and wrote the story as a challenge to the medical profession and the relationship between science and society.

Mary Trachsel, associate professor of rhetoric, will lead the free, public discussion.

In addition, a related National Library of Medicine exhibit, “The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper,'” is on display Nov. 30 to Jan. 9 at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

Copies of the short story are available on reserve at the Main Library and Hardin Library. The story also is online at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/literatureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf.

For more information, contact Ed Holtum at 319-335-9154 or edwin-holtum@uiowa.edu, or Kären Mason at 319-335-5068 or karen-mason@uiowa.edu.