Gertrude Stein as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student atJohns Hopkins Medical School was a privileged woman but she was surrounded bywomen who ... » 

Gertrude Stein as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student atJohns Hopkins Medical School was a privileged woman but she was surrounded bywomen who were trapped by poverty class and race into lives that offeredlittle choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realisticdepictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to becomedomestic workers. This collection of documents from the history of womenssuffrage medical history modernist art and literature enables readers to seehow radical Steins subject was. «