Oxford World's Classics: Room of One's Own - Softcover

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9780192834843: Oxford World's Classics: Room of One's Own

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ISBN 10: 0192834843 ISBN 13: 9780192834843

Publisher: Oxford University Press Espa�a, S.A., 1998

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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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With an introduction by Hermoine Lee

This volume combines two books which are among this century's greatest contributions to feminist literature. Together they form a brilliant attack on patriarchy and sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929 is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The idea for a sequel came to Woolf early in 1931, after she had addressed the London National Society for Women's Service, and was eventually published in 1938 as Three Guineas - a passionate and much more strongly charged polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism.

About the Author:

Virginia Woolf is by reputation one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Morag Shiach is at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

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