Whether one is reading them for the first time or re-reading old favorites, the titles in this series seem like old friends. Mature readers can revisit timeless treasures; young, struggling, or reluctant readers are given a format that helps them connect to the great body of American and world literature. Virginia Woolf has received three separate requests for a guinea -- one for a women's college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help prevent war and to "protect ...
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Whether one is reading them for the first time or re-reading old favorites, the titles in this series seem like old friends. Mature readers can revisit timeless treasures; young, struggling, or reluctant readers are given a format that helps them connect to the great body of American and world literature. Virginia Woolf has received three separate requests for a guinea -- one for a women's college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help prevent war and to "protect culture and intellectual liberty". The book is a threefold answer to those requests, and as the author examines the three causes and points out that they are inseparably the same, she declares a new tactic of feminine purpose.
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Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas is more obviously a polemic against war than her classic Room of One's Own, but it brilliantly interweaves the author's opposition to war with feminism, and shows how patriarchy curtails women's capacity to be truly demonstrate independence of mind. Realpolitik would argue that Woolf is naively utopian, but there need to be thinkers who articulate the visionary position--and Woolf was one of them. It is somewhat troubling to consider what she would have proposed to counter the Nazi threat, but the essay sadly still has currency today. Consider as well her condemnation of the "fact-purveyors" who "prostitute culture." She was critiquing media in the 1930s. Genius isn't a word that should be bandied about lightly, but the word obviously applied to Virginia Woolf.