"The essays in this collection explore the aesthetic similarities and differences between male and female constructions of modernism. The contributors draw on postmodern and feminist theory to discuss the works of both well-known and lesser-known writers, including Djuna Barnes, Zora Neale Hurston, Lytton Strachey, Radclyffe Hall, Louise Bryant, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Arguing for a radical re-evaluation of the modernist aesthetic, the essayists...