![]() ![]() ![]() ‘f you insist upon fighting to protect me, or “our” country,’ she elucidates in the. Rather than positing that women are biologically inclined to pacifism, Woolf asserts that it is their oppressed social position that makes them inclined to oppose war. Her famous declaration that ‘as a woman, I have no country s a woman I want no country s a woman my country is the whole world’ explicitly reinforces this link between economic, intellectual and social disadvantage, and anti-nationalism (TG, p. Woolf repeatedly states in Three Guineas that it is the historically oppressed and disqualified position of women in British society that causes them to feel no sympathy with the patriotic aims of war. Woolf’s fullest public exploration of her feminist politics also realizes the most significant shift in the development of her late cultural criticism – the incorporation of pacifism into her feminist stance. ![]()
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