Virginia Woolf
Great Women Thinkers
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2026
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-032-90381-1 (ISBN)
Description
Virginia Woolf: Great Women Thinkers offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the foundations, development, and influence of Virginia Woolf's philosophy of "moments of being" across her writing life.
Considering her work across novels, essays, reviews, diaries, and letters - from early writing to the posthumous final novel - the book shows how Woolf's thinking was shaped by feminism, socialism, and pacifism. It foregrounds A Room of One's Own to trace her ideas on women's rights, education, and poverty; situates her within the Bloomsbury Group and wider philosophical networks; and devotes a substantial final section to political thought, including "A Society", Three Guineas, and "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid", establishing Woolf as a philosopher and public intellectual.
Key themes include:
* "moments of being" as a philosophical concept
* feminism, socialism, and pacifism
* anti-war and anti-fascist political thought
* peace, violence, and public intellectual engagement
Virginia Woolf: Great Women Thinkers is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Woolf Studies, Feminist Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Modernism, Philosophy, and Peace Studies, as well as readers across the humanities and social sciences.
Considering her work across novels, essays, reviews, diaries, and letters - from early writing to the posthumous final novel - the book shows how Woolf's thinking was shaped by feminism, socialism, and pacifism. It foregrounds A Room of One's Own to trace her ideas on women's rights, education, and poverty; situates her within the Bloomsbury Group and wider philosophical networks; and devotes a substantial final section to political thought, including "A Society", Three Guineas, and "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid", establishing Woolf as a philosopher and public intellectual.
Key themes include:
* "moments of being" as a philosophical concept
* feminism, socialism, and pacifism
* anti-war and anti-fascist political thought
* peace, violence, and public intellectual engagement
Virginia Woolf: Great Women Thinkers is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Woolf Studies, Feminist Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Modernism, Philosophy, and Peace Studies, as well as readers across the humanities and social sciences.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-90381-1 (9781032903811)
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Other editions
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Book
approx. 11/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€52.50
Not yet published
Person
Jean Mills is Professor of English at John Jay College, City University of New York, USA.
Content
00. Introduction: Moments of Being: The Making of a Feminist Thinker Part One: Feminist Thought 01. Class Notes: "Why are women poor?" 02. The" Odour" of Influence: Thoughts on Access and Opportunity 03. A Feminist Poetics of Space: Inside and Outside Rooms Part Two: A Philosophy of Literature: Language, Processes, and Patterns 04. So Passionate an Apprentice: The Early Work 05. A Design "so Queer & Masterful": The Major Novels 06. Fiction "like a spider's web": The Later Novels Part Three: Political Thought 07. Portrait of a Marriage as Political Collaboration 08. Friends and Mentors: Women in Intellectual and Political Community 09. Philosophies of Peace: "A Society," Three Guineas, and "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid".