ABSTRACT
An enormous gulf would seem to divide Jane Addams's immigrant Chicago from Gertrude Stein's expatriate Paris; Jane Addams's social work and politics from Gertrude Stein's writing and art. But the terms of the first opposition, immigration and expatriation, suggest at least a symbolic mutuality, and it will be my purpose here to investigate, within a particular historical context, the parallel mutuality of progressive politics and avantgarde art. l Gertrude Stein and Jane Addams opened remarkably similar spaces: borderlands that served as powerful mediations, if not resolutions, of the contradictions of gender, politics and culture in the early twentieth century.
