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Work #995 · Late

Three Guineas

Virginia Woolf
1938 (Hogarth Press) · English
Polemical-philosophical extended essay · Twentieth-century English feminist political philosophy

How can we prevent war? An anti-fascist feminist argues the patriarchal-educational establishment and the war system are continuous

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Attribute Three Guineas (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Discrete

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Three Guineas

1937-38 moment of European fascism's rise.

Space

Three Guineas

Patriarchal-educational space; alternative Society of Outsiders space.

Matter

Three Guineas

Material institutions — universities, professional offices, military uniforms — as embodied patriarchal-militarist culture.

Observer

Three Guineas

The educated daughter of an educated man whose outsider status enables the critique.

Energy

Three Guineas

Institutional energies of the procession; alternative energies of resistance.

Information

Three Guineas

Argument that patriarchy and war are structurally connected; specific historical-statistical evidence.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Three Guineas

Largely neglected for forty years; 1970s feminist movement restored it to centrality. Some critics argue the parallel between patriarchy and war is over-simplified.