Three Guineas

Paperback, 206 pages

English language

Published 1978 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-004494-2
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Those who consider that Virginia Woolf was too wrapped up in her art and set to take note of what went on around her, will be confounded by this witty, elegant and lucid polemic, which so magnificently argues the case for sexual equality and for women's liberation.

Far from being a rarefied treatise on Bloomsbury's notion of 'literature', Three Guineas was rather an extremely pertinent and well-aimed opening shot in the battle which still rages today.

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More a feminist work than a work on war

This book very much continues the feminist exploration begun in A Room of One’s Own, this time with the framing device of a response to a letter asking for help preventing war (the book was written a year before the beginning of World War II). There is a lot of information, and a number of interesting ideas are presented here. Overall, though, I found it a more difficult and less focused book than Room. Certainly still worth reading.

Subjects

  • War
  • Peace
  • Feminist theory
  • Women's rights
  • Women's education