ABSTRACT
For the last decade, feminist scholars have been "recharting the modernist territory" through the "delineation of the (anti-) tradition of female modernism." (DeKoven 19) In what follows, I will suggest that we expand the territory we are recharting, by crossing the border dividing what C.P. Snow called the two cultures, and reexamining our understanding of the relationship between female modernist writers and modem science. If we examine the ways that modem women writers have written about science, we discover a shift in women's position that might be described as the move from being invisible assistants to lab partners. This change in the relationship of women to science has implications that bridge the two cultures, because the representation of science by modem women writers is linked both to gender critique and to a reconceptualization of modernism.
