A Room of Ones Own and Three Guineas
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Virginia Woolf , Edited by Anna Snaith


Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...

In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for womens intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. In A Room of Ones Own she explores centuries of limitations placed on women, as well as celebrating the creative achievements of the women writers who overcame these obstacles. In this first history of womens writing, she describes the importance of education, financial independence, and equality of
opportunity to creative freedom. Three Guineas was written under the threat of fascism and impending war. A radical articulation of Woolfs pacifist politics, it investigates the causes of gender inequalities and the ways in which womens historic outsider position make them crucial in the prevention of war.

Both these works started life as talks to groups of young women, and their engaging wit and informality establish Woolf as one of the twentieth-centurys greatest essayists. Their arguments continue to reverberate in feminist discourse to this day.

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Product details

Format Paperback | 352 pages
Dimensions 129 x 195 x 15mm | 248g
Publication date 12 Mar 2015
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Revised
Edition Statement 2nd Revised edition
Illustrations note 4 pages black and white images
ISBN13 9780199642212
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