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Description of  The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes (Modernist Latitudes)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical womens movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another, brought together through the socialist internationals. Juno Jill Richards argues that these movements were not just socially linked but also deeply interconnected. Each offered the other an experimental language that could move beyond the nation-states rights of man and citizen, suggesting an alternative conceptual vocabulary for womens rights. Rather than focus on the demand for the vote, Read more