Three Lives

Description

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature enables readers to see how radical Stein's subject was. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-2 Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background....Pages 3-26 Chronology of Stein’s Life and Times....Pages 27-34 A Note on the Text....Pages 35-35 Three Lives....Pages 36-215 Front Matter....Pages 217-218 The Woman Question: Rights, the Vote, Education, Health....Pages 219-259 Questions of Otherness: Sexuality (“Inversion”), Race, Gender....Pages 260-307 Discussions of Mind and Philosophy....Pages 308-328 Aesthetic Questions: Realism and the Modern....Pages 329-359 Modernism and the Avant-Garde....Pages 360-379 Back Matter....Pages 380-387