Book 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.
