GENDER IN MODERNISM - GBV

GENDER INMODERNISMNew Geographies, Complex IntersectionsEdited and with an Introduction byBonnie Kime ScottUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSURBANA AND CHICAGO

CONTENTSAcknowledgments / xvIntroduction: A Retro-prospective on Gender in ModernismBonnie Kime Scott / iPart I. Modernist/Feminist Activism1. SUFFRAGE AND SPECTACLEIntroduced and Selected by Mary Chapman and Barbara Green/25Evelyn SharpThe Women at the Gate / 37Lady Constance LyttonFrom Prisons and Prisoners/44Edna FerberFrom Chapter 15, Fanny Herself / 48Anne O'HaganFrom Chapter 7, The Sturdy Oak I 58Illustrations:The "Car of Empire" Women's Coronation ProcessionPickets at the White House, 1917 / 282. MANIFESTOES FROM THE SEX WARIntroduced and Selected by Janet Lyon/67Emmeline PankhurstVotes for Women: New Movement Manifesto / 76NWSPUOur Demand: What It Is and What It Is Not / 77WSPUWindow Breaking: To One Who Has Suffered / 79Filippo Tommaso MarinettiAgainst A more and Parliamentarianism / 81Marriage and the Family / 84/ 27

Valentine de Saint-PointManifesto of Futurist WomanMina LoyFeminist Manifesto / 91/ 873. RADICAL MODERNS: AMERICAN WOMEN POETS ON THE LEFTIntroduced and Selected by Nancy Berke / 94Lola RidgeFrom "The Ghetto" / 100Lullaby / 105Genevieve TaggardAt Last the Women Are Moving / 106A Middle-Aged, Middle-Class Woman at MidnightFeeding the Children / 108The Ruskinian Boys See Red / 109Lucia Trent and Ralph CheyneyWhat Is This Modernism? / 112Ruth LechlitnerLines for an Abortionist's Office / 116Case Recruit / 116Marie de L. WelchSky-Scraper in Construction / 117Camp Corcoran / 118/ 107Part II. Issues of Production and Reception4. SENTIMENTAL MODERNISMIntroduced and Selected by Suzanne Clark/125Angelina Weld GrimkeYou / 136Your Eyes / 137Blue Cycle / 138Beware Lest He Awakes / 138The Black Finger / 140"Rachel," The Play of the Month: The Reason andSynopsis by the Author / 140Edna St. Vincent MillaySonnet XVIII (I, being born a woman and distressed) / 143The Pioneer (Sonnet LXVII, for Inez Milholland) / 144

Louise BoganSummer Wish / 145The Heart and the Lyre / 149Kay BoyleFrom LettersLetter to Lola Ridge (Aug. 1924) / 153Letter to Katherine Evans Boyle (July 1926) / 154Letter to Katherine Evans Boyle (Oct. 1926) / 155Letter to William Carlos Williams (Oct. 1932) / 156On the Run / 157DEBATING FEMINISM, MODERNISM, AND SOCIALISM:BEATRICE HASTINGS'S VOICES IN THE NEW AGEIntroduced and Selected by Ann Ardis / 160Beatrice HastingsSuffragettes in the Making / 168On Guard / 170Feminism and tne Franchise / 171From The Old "New Age" Orage—And Others / 174The Way Back to America / 178From "Impressions of Paris" / 182JOURNALISM MEETS MODERNISMIntroduced and Selected by Patrick Collier/186Rebecca WestThe Future of the Press IV: The Journalist and the Public / 196Rose MacaulayThe Press and the Public / 201What the Public Wants / 205Winifred HoltbyModern Newspaper: Edited to Entertain / 209Virginia WoolfReviewing / 215WOMEN EDITORS AND M O D E R N I S TSENSIBILITIESIntroduced and Selected by Jayne E. Marek/Margaret AndersonFrom "Our First Year" / 232Jane HeapFrom "Machine-Age Exposition" / 234From "Art and the Law" / 236225

Alice Corbin HendersonOf Editors and Poets / 238Harriet MonroeFrom "What Next?" / 239Marianne MooreComment / 241From "The Spare American Emotion" / 243Amy LowellFrom "Nationalism in Art" / 245Jessie Redmon FausetFrom "Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress" / 247Gwendolyn BennettFrom "The Ebony Flute" / 253From "Blue-Black Symphony" / 256Dorothy WestLetter to Langston Hughes, 1934 / 258Editorial [with Marian Minus] / 2598. HOPE MIRRLEES AND CONTINENTAL MODERNISMIntroduced and Selected by Julia Briggs / 261Hope MirrleesParis: A Poem / 270Commentary on Paris by Julia Briggs / 287Illustration:Facsimile of Paris, p. 1 / 271Part III. Diverse Identities and Geographies9. LESBIAN POLITICAL HISTORYIntroduced and Selected by Gay Wachman /307Vernon LeeFrom Satan the Waster / 318Rose Laure AllatiniFrom Despised and Rejected / 321Radclyffe HallFrom "Notes on The Well of Loneliness" I 325Sylvia Townsend WarnerAfter my marriage night / 328Valentine AcklandCountry Dealings / 330'

Sylvia Townsend WarnerMy Shirt Is in Mexico / 33310. QUEER CONJUNCTIONS IN MODERNISMIntroduced and Selected by Colleen Lamos / 336Djuna Barnes"Introduction," From Ladies Almanack / 343Bruce NugentFrom "Smoke, Lilies and Jade" / 345Charles Henri Ford and Parker TylerChapter 13: "I Don't Want to Be a Doll," from The Youngand Evil I 354Robert McAlmonFrom "The Indefinite Huntress" / 361Countee CullenFruit of the Flower / 369Hart CraneEpisode of Hands / 37011. MODERNISM, GENDER, AND PASSINGIntroduced and Selected by Pamela L. Caughie/372Heba JannathFrom "America's Changing Color Line" / 387Elsie Clews ParsonsFrom "The Zuni La' Mana" / 394ColetteNuit Blanche (trans. Anne Callahan) / 398Claude McKayFrom "Malty Turned Down" in Banjo I 401D. H. LawrenceFrom The Woman Who Rode Away / 407Robert McAlmonWhite Males / 413Joan RiviereFrom "Womanliness as a Masquerade" / 414Ernest HemingwayFrom The Garden of Eden I 419Illustrations:Mrs. Credit of Philadelphia, Pa., from The Messenger / 376Karl Arnold, "Lotte am Scheidewege" (Lotte at the Crossroads) / 377

We-Wha Weaving / 378D. H. Lawrence painting, Fight with an Amazon12. MODERNISM, GENDER, AND AFRICAIntroduced and Selected by Tuzyline Jita Allan// 383427W. E. B. Du BoisThe African Roots of War / 438Alain LockeAfro-Americans and West Africans: A New Understanding /Charlotte MaxekeSocial Conditions among Bantu Women and Girls / 453Mabel Dove-DanquahThe Torn Veil / 458Adelaide Casely HayfordMista Courifer / 46313. RACE, NATION, AND MODERNITY: THE ANTI-COLONIALCONSCIOUSNESS OF MODERNISMIntroduced and Selected by Sonita Sarker / 472Behramji Merwanji MalabariFrom "The Indian Eye on English Life, or Rambles of aPilgrim Reformer" / 482Victoria OcampoLiving History (trans. Doris Meyer) / 488Woman, Her Rights and Her Responsibilities / 494Jean RhysMeta / 501Chorus Girls / 503Cornelia SorabjiExtracts from Unpublished Diaries and Lectures / 508Gertrude SteinFrom Paris France, Part 2 / 512Part IV. War, Technology, and Traumas of Modernity14. WAR, MODERNISMS, AND THE FEMINIZED "OTHER"Introduced and Selected by Claire M. Tylee / 519Mulk Raj AnandFrom Across the Black Waters I 528445

James HanleyNarrative: IX / 536Martha GellhornThe Third Winter: November 1938 / 539Sean O'CaseyFrom Act I, The Silver Tassie I 544Anna WickhamLondon Scenes: The Night March / 55415. MODERNISM, TRAUMA, AND NARRATIVE REFORMULATIONIntroduced and Selected by Suzette A. Henke / 555H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)From Bid Me to Live I 563Dorothy RichardsonFrom Pilgrimage / 574Virginia WoolfFrom "The Prime Minister" Holograph16. MODERNISM AND MEDICINEIntroduced and Selected by Susan Squier// 581588Vera BrittainFrom Halcyon, or The Future of Monogamy / 597J. D. BernalFrom The World, the Flesh, and the Devil / 601J. B. S. HaldaneFrom Daedalus, or Science and the Future / 606Elizabeth Von ArnimChapter 14, Part II, from Love I 609C. P. SnowFrom New Lives for Old I 61517. MEDIUMSHIP, AUTOMATISM, AND MODERN 1ST AUTHORSH I PIntroduced and Selected by Bette London / 623Hester Travers SmithFrom Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde / 632Geraldine CumminsConcerning the Cleophas Scripts / 647Radclyffe Hall and Una Lady TroubridgeFrom "On a Series of Sittings with Mrs. Osborne Leonard" /658

Part V: Arts and Performances18. GENDER AND COLLABORATION IN MODERN DRAMAIntroduced and Selected by Katherine E. Kelly / 677Christopher St. JohnThe First Actress / 696Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St. JohnFrom How the Vote Was Won / 706Sophie TreadwellFrom Machinal I 720Ravien Siurlai (Ferdinand Hardekopf)Emmy Hennings / 735Emmy HenningsThe Perhaps Last Flight(trans. Judith Bach and Katherine Weinstein) / 736Suzanne PerrottetA Description of Emmy Hennings Dancing in a Cardboard DadaCostume (trans. Judith Bach and Katherine Weinstein) / 737Illustrations:Hamilton and St. John's How the Vote Was WonMembers of the Actresses' Franchise League /St. John's The First Actress I 683Shakespeare Festival production of Machinal IEmmy Hennings with Dada puppet / 687Sophie Taeuber posing in Hans Arp costume /19. MODERNISM, GENDER, AND DANCEIntroduced and Selected by Carol Shloss // 680680685689738Isadora DuncanThe Dance and Its Inspiration: Written in the Form ofan Old Greek Dialogue / 746The Freedom of Woman / 750Margaret MorrisFrom "Health and Physical Exercise" / 751Andre LevinsonThe Girls / 75920. THE GENDER OF MODERN/lST PAINTINGIntroduced and Selected by Diane F. Gillespie /765Vanessa BellFrom "Lecture Given at Leighton Park School" / 778

Marie LaurencinMen's Genius Intimidates Me (trans. Alita Kelley) / 787Sonia DelaunayCarpets and Fabrics (trans. Alita Kelley) / 790Eileen AgarReligion and the Artistic Imagination / 793From "Am I a Surrealist?" / 795Winifred NicholsonFrom "Liberation of Colour" / 796Emily CarrFrom "Fresh Seeing" / 802Illustrations:Vanessa Bell, The Bedroom, Gordon Square, 1912 / 783Marie Laurencin, Woman Painter and Her Model, 1921 / 786Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Electric Prisms, 1914 / 790Eileen Agar, The Autobiography of an Embryo, 1933/34 / 793Winifred Nicholson, Window-sill, Lugano, 1923 / 797Emily Carr, Totem Mother, Kitwancool, 1928 / 8032 1 . CINEASTES AND MODERNISTS: WRITING ON FILM IN1 9 2 0 S LONDONIntroduced and Selected by Leslie Kathleen Hankins/809Iris BarryThe Cinema: A Comparison of Arts / 824The Scope of the Cinema / 826Untitled Memoirs about the Launching of the Film Society / 828From Let's Go to the Pictures I 831Women Film Makers / 835Women Who Make Us Laugh / 836London Film Society Programme No. 38 (Women Directors) / 837Virginia WoolfThe Cinema / 840Gilbert SeldesThe Abstract Movie / 844H. D.Projector / 848Dorothy RichardsonFrom "So I gave up going to the theatre" / 851BryherThe Sociological Film, I / 853

IllustrationsCollage: London Film Society and little magazines / 812Iris Barry / 814Peasant Women ofRiazan film still / 820General BibliographyContributorsIndex/ 865/ 861/ 859

19. MODERNISM, GENDER, AND DANCE Introduced and Selected by Carol Shloss / 738 Isadora Duncan The Dance and Its Inspiration: Written in the Form of an Old Greek Dialogue / 746 The Freedom of Woman / 750 Margaret Morris From "Health and Physical Exercise" / 751 Andre Levin