Focusing on the complete works of Stevie Smith, Severin suggests that Smith's boundary crossing art forms, which transgress genres and even media, represent an attempt to undo the coherence of femininity as defined in the conservative period of World War II. Tracing her works chronologically, Stevie Smith's Resistant Antics Explores the crossing of popular romance and experimental women's fiction in smith's three novels, the use of juxtaposition in her drawings and poetry, the movement from satire to fantasy in her short stories, the combination of performance and poetry in her sung poems, and her work as a popular and literary reviewer.