Abstract
Concurrent with medical literature in the 1930s that argued that a healthy and fulfilling lifestyle required female sexual satisfaction, Fannie Hurst's novel Imitation of Life (1933) argues that female sexual power is not centered within a woman's conspicuous sexual desirability to attract a man but rather within a conscious and adaptable sexual autonomy she now has a right to exercise. A reevaluation of the novel's feminist message not only to reestablishes Hurst as a significant feminist critic of her time but also reclaims the cultural significance of Imitation of Life as a prescient examination of modern sexual identity.
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