"The underappreciated queer heroine Margaret C. Anderson was always ready for a fight. Anderson's push to publish James Joyce's masterwork would lead to her arrest and trial for obscenity, but, years before that case, she had already come under fire for publishing the literary avant-garde in a world not quite ready for it. Her cutting-edge magazine The Little Review was a bastion of progressive politics and boundary-pushing writing from such unknowns as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Djuna Barnes. And, as its publisher, Anderson was a target. From Chicago, New York, and then Paris, this fearless agitator helmed a woman-led publication that pushed American culture forward and challenged the sensibilities of early twentieth-century Americans dismayed by its 'salacious' writing and advocacy for extreme positions in support of women's suffrage, access to birth control, social justice, and sexual freedom. But in 1921, Anderson found herself on trial, berated by the court and made an example of. In Margaret's words, she'd been portrayed as 'a danger to the minds of young girls.' She was now not just a publisher but also a scapegoat for regressive officials seeking to shame and chasten unruly women and impose their will on a world racing swiftly toward a new kind of modernity"-- Dust jacket