Three Guineas
Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make...
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Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation.Annotated and with an introduction by Jane Marcus
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156031639 (0156031639)
Publish date: July 3rd 2006
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
20th Century,
Feminism,
Philosophy,
Womens
The book is a Non-fiction long essay discussing fascism, war and feminism.Three questions are discussed and answered, these three questions are the Guineas from the title.can war be prevented ?why has women education been poorly funded?Why can't women work the same jobs as men?well worth the read ♥
The easy joke: 'Three Guineas' is why you never ask Virginia Woolf for money.Three letters each ask for a donation for their cause: the first asks what can be done to prevent war, the second asks for funds to rebuild a woman's college, and the third asks for money to help secure jobs for the daughte...
recommended by emma thompson who plays professor trelawny.
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