Women, Compulsion, Modernity

The 1890s have long been thought one of the most male-oriented eras in American history. But in reading such writers as Frank Norris with Mary Wilkins Freeman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman with Stephen Crane, Jennifer L. Fleissner boldly argues that feminist claims in fact shaped the period''s cultural mainstream. Women, Compulsion, Modernity reopens a moment when the young American woman embodied ...