Virginia Woolf

Great Women Thinkers
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-89803-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Great Women Thinkers

Virginia Woolf: Great Women Thinkers offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the foundations, development, and influence of Virginia Woolf’s philosophy of “moments of being” across her writing life.

Considering her work across novels, essays, reviews, diaries, and letters—from early writing to the posthumous final novel—the book shows how Woolf’s thinking was shaped by feminism, socialism, and pacifism. It foregrounds A Room of One’s Own to trace her ideas on women’s rights, education, and poverty; situates her within the Bloomsbury Group and wider philosophical networks; and devotes a substantial final section to political thought, including “A Society,” Three Guineas, and “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid,” establishing Woolf as a philosopher and public intellectual.

Key themes include:

• “moments of being” as a philosophical concept

• feminism, socialism, and pacifism

• anti-war and anti-fascist political thought

• peace, violence, and public intellectual engagement

Virginia Woolf: Great Women Thinkers is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Woolf Studies, Feminist Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Modernism, Philosophy, and Peace Studies, as well as readers across the humanities and social sciences.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mills, Jean

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: “Moments of Being”: The Making of a Feminist Thinker Part I: Feminist Thought 01. Class Notes: “Why are Women Poor?” 02. The” Odour” of Influence: Thoughts on Access and Opportunity 03. A Feminist Poetics of Space: Inside and Outside Rooms Part II: A Philosophy of Literature: Language, Processes, and Patterns 04. So Passionate an Apprentice: The Early Work 05. A Design “so Queer & Masterful”: The Major Novels 06. Fiction “Like a Spider’s Web”: The Later Novels Part III: Political Thought 07. Portrait of a Marriage as Political Collaboration 08. Friends and Mentors: Women in Intellectual and Political Community 09. Philosophies of Peace: “A Society”; Three Guineas; “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid”

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Mills is Professor of English at John Jay College, City University of New York, USA.