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A few belated thoughts

Submitted by albolton on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 1:32pm.

Three Guineas seems to me very important in the sense of giving us a chance to touch base with what I understand is thought of as the first wave of feminism, but I think our world has changed a good bit in the years since it was written.  Even then, I think there was significant difference between England and the US in terms of rigidity of class structure.  So I think we can't expect Woolf to speak directly to our here/now situation.  But she certainly points to where we've come from.

The issue of class reminded me of a book I ran across in a used bookstore a few months ago, Cheap Amusements by Kathy Peiss, subtitled "Working Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century New York."  Reading this was something of an eye-opener, and a challenge to assumptions I hadn't realized I'd been making.  It's worth seeking out.

--Alex '65

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