The author received three separate requests for a gift of one guinea-one for a women’s college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and o...
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ISBN: 0156031639
ISBN-13: 9780156031639
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Phil Treagus-Evans @philtreagus
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Jun 23, 2019
- Curated in THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS ON FEMINISM
This essay is often regarded as a rant and written off by Woolf’s critics and detractors. But the prose has a furious energy and there is a recognition here of what masculinity can be like that transcends time and place. The self-regard, the pomposity, the prejudice about the world outside a tiny place of privilege, the greed for power and wealth – not to mention the crass ignorance of anything except itself – are as much with us in 2019 as in 1938.