Title: Women's experience of modernity, 1875-1945
Description: "In Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945, literary scholars working with a variety of interdisciplinary methodologies move feminine phenomena from the margins of the study of modernity to its center.

Analyzing such cultural practices as selling and shopping, political and social activism, urban field work and rural labor, radical discourses on feminine sexuality, and literary and artistic experimentation, this volume contributes to the rich vein of current feminist scholarship on the "gender of modernism" and challenges the assumption that modernism rose naturally or inevitably to the forefront of the cultural landscape at the turn of the twentieth century.".

"During this period, "women's experience" was a rallying cry for feminists, a unifying cause that allowed women to work together to effect social change and make claims for women's rights in terms of their access to the public world - as voters, paid laborers, political activists, and artists commenting on life in the modern world.

Women's experience, however, also proved to be a source of great divisiveness among women, for claims about its universality quickly unraveled to reveal the classism racism, and Eurocentrism of various feminist activities and organizations."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Feminism and literature, English literature, American literature, History and criticism, Sex role in literature, Modernism (Literature), Women authors, Women and literature, American literature, women authors, American literature, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, English literature, women authors, History, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Modernisme (Littérature), Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Littérature anglaise, Féminisme et littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Écrits de femmes américains, Écrits de femmes anglais, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Frauenliteratur, Feminisme, Vrouwen, Letterkunde, Amerikaans, Modernisme (cultuur), Sekserol