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The gifted English writer submits a strong plea for intellectual freedom, women's rights, and the cessation of war
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&;Witty, scornful, deeply serious&;If you are a woman, or anti-war, or both, read it.&;&;The New Yorker &;How are we to prevent war?&; Setting out to answer this question, Virginia Woolf argues that the inequalities between women and men must first be addressed. Framing her arguments in the form of a letter, Woolf ponders to whom&;among the many who have requested it&;she will donate a guinea. As she works out her reasons for which causes she will support, Woolf articulates a vision of peace and political culture as radical now as it was when first published on the eve of the Second World War. A founding text of cultural theory, Three Guineas can also help us understand the twenty-first-century realities of endless war justified by &;unreal loyalties.&;
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