A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas (Oxford World's Classics)
In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One's Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when...
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In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One's Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when women's creativity will not be hampered by poverty, or by oppression. In Three Guineas (1938), however, Woolf argues that women's historical exclusion offers them the chance to form a political and cultural identity which could challenge the drive towards fascism and war.
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ISBN:
9780199536603 (0199536600)
ASIN: 199536600
Publish date: June 12th 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Criticism,
Feminism,
Philosophy,
Modern Classics,
Womens,
Gender,
Gender Studies