This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism, its preoccupation with style at the expense of issues such as race, class and gender, and its exclusive focus both on predominately male writers, poetry and prose fiction by highlighting the diversity of cultural production in the modernist period. This book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines. The book investigates how women usually constructed as "others", themselves construct others in their work in a period prominently concerned with the construction of self as an issue. This diversity offers a new format of reading modernism in a cross-disciplinary context.

Gabriele Griffin is a Reader in Women’s Studies at Nene College, Northampton. She has contributed to What Lesbians Do In Books (eds. Elaine Hobby and Chris White, Women’s Press, 1991), Insights into Blackwomen’s Writing (ed. Gina Wisker, Macmillan, 1993) and to Teaching Women (eds. Ann Thompson and Helen Wilcox, Manchester University Press, 1989). She is the author of Heavenly Love? Lesbian Images in Twentieth Century Women‘s Writing (Manchester University Press, 1993), and edited Outwrite: Lesbians and Popular Culture (Pluto Press, 1993). Together with Elaine Aston, she also edited two volumes of plays by women, Herstory vols 1 and 2 (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991).