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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
Description: Virginia Woolfâs 1938 provocative and polemical essay Three Guineas presents the iconic writerâs views on war, women, and the way the patriarchy at home oppresses women in ways that resemble those of fascism abroad. Two great Woolf experts, Professor Anne Fernald, editor of two editions of Mrs. Dalloway which she movingly discusses on another Think About It episode, and Rajgopal Saikumar, who is completing a dissertation on Woolf, Hurston, Baldwin and Gandhi and the âduty to disobeyâ at NYU, explain Woolfâs arguments, the reasons for the shocked response by most of her peers, and why Three Guineas remains so relevan...