| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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The Secret Treachery of Words: Feminism and Modernism in America. By Elizabeth Francis. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. xxx, 197 pp. Cloth, $52.95, ISBN 0-8166-3327-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8166-3328-2.)

In The Secret Treachery of Words, Elizabeth Francis seeks to recover a "lost history" of feminism in the modernist movement of the early twentieth century. Although feminists and modernists in the bohemia of Greenwich Village made common cause in their struggle against what they saw as the repression and narrowness of American life, histories of modernism—many written by the male modernists themselves—have tended to erase both the role of women in early modernism and the political allegiances that once united feminism and artistic modernism. Francis focuses on four "feminist modernists"—the dancer Isadora Duncan, the editor Margaret Anderson, and the writers Floyd Dell and Josephine Herbst—to explore the ways in which feminism and modernism supported one another but also the ways in which artistic modernism proved a dead end for a number of feminists seeking liberation.

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