Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The New Woman and Progressive America -- 1. Suffragist or "Squaw"?: S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's Mediations of Feminism and Indian Rights -- 2. From Race Women to an Erased Woman: Pauline Hopkins's Nonfiction Polemic and Novelistic Ambivalence -- 3. A View from the Border: Sui Sin Far's Interrogation of the Progressive New Woman -- 4. "The Highly Original Country of the Yanquis": María Cristina Mena and American Womanhood -- 5. Escaping the "Torah-Made World": The Fiction of Anzia Yezierska -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.