A Room of One's Own
Author: Woolf, Virginia
ISBN: 9780593688632
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 23 Apr 2025
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;Virginia WoolfP#8217;s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;Virginia WoolfP#8217;s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments--such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not--Woolf analyzes the many ways in which women have been held back throughout history and still are in her own time. First published in 1929, Plt;iPgt;A Room of OneP#39;s OwnPlt;/iPgt; has been a towering and inspirational statement of feminist principles for nearly a century--and remains relevant now, at a time of growing awareness of the kind of social injustices that she decried.
ISBN: 9780593688632
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 23 Apr 2025
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;Virginia WoolfP#8217;s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;Virginia WoolfP#8217;s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments--such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not--Woolf analyzes the many ways in which women have been held back throughout history and still are in her own time. First published in 1929, Plt;iPgt;A Room of OneP#39;s OwnPlt;/iPgt; has been a towering and inspirational statement of feminist principles for nearly a century--and remains relevant now, at a time of growing awareness of the kind of social injustices that she decried.
