Introduction [excerpt] Women modernist writers breached the barriers set up for them by their male counterparts and society by writing about the political, philosophical, and often the taboo. Two women authors, Virginia Woolf and Radclyffe Hall, ventured into the field of taboo subject matter, exploring Sapphist desires in their texts, and consequently redefined the limits for women writers. Two of the most significant modernist texts that explore these Sapphist desires are Woolf's ...