Three Guineas
What does Woolf suggest to make the world a better place for women and for all humanity?
in three guineas
in three guineas
At its most polemical, Woolf’s essay explicitly urges women to reject insinuations that they owe loyalty to a school, to a church or even to a country. Since the patriarchal system colludes through institutional means to deny women the same benefits offered to men, there should likewise be no expectation of allegiance on the part of women to these institutions. The consequence of this rejection for women is being freed from all sociological and psychological expectations that such devotion engenders. The consequence for the world is all-encompassing loss on the part of half its population to the nationalistic pride which has been the underlying foundation of almost all wars throughout recorded history.