How do gender and race become objects of intellectual inquiry and
evaluation? In this book Alice Gambrell examines the careers of a group
of women intellectuals--Leonora Carrington, Ella Deloria, H.D., Zora
Neale Hurston, and Frida Kahlo--whose scholarly rediscovery coincided
with the rise of feminist and minority discourse studies in the academy.
Gambrell offers new ways of thinking about the relationships between
cultural studies, feminism and minority discourse within the ongoing
reassessment of Modernism.