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Francis, Elizabeth. "Feminism and Modernism: Gender and Cultural Politics in America, 1910-1940," Department of American Civilization, Brown University, May 1994.
This study interprets autobiographies, fiction, essays and visual texts to illuminate challenges to “woman’s place” in modernist America. It also explores the language of gender in debates over art and politics between 1910 and 1940, thus bridging modernist studies and women’s history. Each chapter focuses on a figure who vividly articulated possibilities and tensions in the relation between feminism and modernism: modern dancer Isadora Duncan, avant-garde literary editor Margaret Anderson, cultural radical Floyd Dell and novelist and journalist Josephine Herbst. The introduction and conclusion argue that modern women posed important challenges to language, power and representation that broke from nineteenth-century models and that continue to resonate.
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