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Modernist Women In Three Acts: The Stage For Political Protest, Jennifer B. Redmond
Modernist Women In Three Acts: The Stage For Political Protest, Jennifer B. Redmond
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In this essay, I will draw upon Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand Sh011stories, "Bliss" (1918), "The Woman at the Store" (1912), "Je Ne Parle Pas Francais" (1918), George Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), and Virginia Woolf's extended essay A Room of One 's Own (1929), to defend Jeffreys's idea that "lesbianism" was, in many cases, nothing more than a bond of friendship between two women - a private experience that took on a different meaning in the public eye.
Additionally, I wish to support Gubar's notion that gender norms frequently existed secondarily to the importance of women gaining more …