A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. En este artículo se lleva a cabo un análisis comparativo de las traducciones al español de los ensayos feministas A Room of One’s Own y Three Guineas de Virginia Woolf, así como un estudio. Their arguments continue to reverberate in feminist discourse to this day.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. A radical articulation of Woolf's pacifist politics, it investigates the causes of gender inequalities and the ways in which women's historic outsider position make them crucial in the prevention of war.īoth these works started life as talks to groups of young women, and their engaging wit and informality establish Woolf as one of the twentieth-century's greatest essayists. 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. Three Guineas was written under the threat of fascism and impending war. Published almost a decade later, Three Guineas breaks new ground in its discussion of men, militarism and womens attitudes towards war. 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 this first history of women's writing, she describes the importance of education, financial independence, and equality of In A Room of One's 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 these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. female creativity, A Room of Ones Own, based on a lecture given by Woolf at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics.

'Intellectual freedom depends on material things.

A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf