Mina Loy's Place in Modernism

“If this is madness,” I said to myself, breathing his atmosphere exquisite almost to sanctification, “madness is something very beautiful.” 
― Mina Loy, Insel

Mina Loy embodied a modern woman because of the topics she chose to write about, the most controversial one being female sexuality. In her writing, Mina expressed her love, heartbreak, confusion, disdain, and many other feelings. She never did fit into what was expected of women at the time. In "Feminist Manifesto", Loy encouraged to women what had never been encouraged before. Some include, "there is nothing impure in sex — except in the mental attitude towards it, "Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not — seek within yourselves to find out what you are." 

Loy wrote her "Feminist Manifesto" in response to the misogyny she experienced with the Futurists and Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism." She wrote that it was only through "absolute demolition" of the current state that kept women in a place of inferiority to men would women get their equal status. The Modernist Movement served as the catalyst for Loy to broadcast her ideas on feminism, but it also makes her less radical because several other women were beginning to make the same change as she was.

However, Loy is incredibly effective and inspirational because she used the Modernist Movement's radicalism to work with her and not against her.