This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism. The book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines.

Introduction Chapter 1 Europe in the Novels of Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen Chapter 2 The Other Other or More of the Same? Women’s Representations of Homosexual Menn Chapter 3 ‘Twinned Pairs of Eternal Opposites’: The Opposing Selves of Vita Sackville-West Chapter 4 ‘The Museum of their Encounter’: The Collision of Past and Present in the Fiction of Djuna Barnes Chapter 5 Case-histories versus the ‘Undeliberate Dream’: Men and Women Writing the Self in the 1930s Chapter 6 ‘Our War is with Words’: Dora Marsden and The Egoist Chapter 7 Becoming as Being: Leonora Carrington’s Writings and Paintings 1937–40 Chapter 8 Susan Hiller, Automatic Writing and Images of the Self Chapter 9 Lee Krasner: Mrs Jackson Pollock Chapter 10 The Pioneer Players: Plays of/with Identity Chapter 11 ‘Meeting the Outside’: The Theatre of Susan Glaspell Chapter 12 ‘When This You See Remember Me’: Three Plays by Gertrude Stein