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- Title
SUFFRAGE AND VIRGINIA WOOLF: 'THE MASS BEHIND THE SINGLE VOICE'.
- Authors
Park, Sowon S.
- Abstract
Virginia Woolf is now widely accepted as a `mother' through whom twenty- first- century feminists think back, but she was ambivalent towards the suffragette movement. Feminist readings of the uneasy relation between Woolf and the women's movement have focused on her practical involvement as a short-lived suffrage campaigner or as a feminist publisher, and have tended to interpret her disapproving references to contemporary feminists as redemptive self-critique. Nevertheless the apparent contradictions remain largely unresolved. By moving away from Woolf in suffrage to suffrage in Woolf, this article argues that her work was in fact deeply rooted at the intellectual centre of the suffrage movement Through an examination of the ideas expressed in A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas and of two suffrage characters, Mary Datchet in Night and Day and Rose Pargiter in The Years, it establishes how Woolf's feminist ideas were informed by suffrage politics, and illuminates connections and allegiances as well as highlighting her passionate resistance to a certain kind of feminism.
- Subjects
FEMINISM; SUFFRAGISTS; ACTIVISTS; WOOLF, Virginia, 1882-1941; SOCIAL movements; VOTING
- Publication
Review of English Studies, 2005, Vol 56, Issue 223, p119
- ISSN
0034-6551
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/res/hgi007