Virginia Woolf and Fascism

MERRY PAWLOWSKI is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Bakersfield. She is the author of several articles examining Woolf within the context of 'male' modernism and English domestic fascism and is currently at work, with Vara Neverow, on an archival edition of Woolf's Reading Notebooks for Three Guineas.

• List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Virginia Woolf at the Crossroads of Feminism, Fascism, and Art: An Introduction; M.M.Pawlowski PART I: FASCISM, HISTORY, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas ; Q.Bell Three Guineas , Fascism, and the Construction of Gender; M.L.Gättens Toward a Feminist Theory of the State: Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis on Art, Gender, and Politics; M.M.Pawlowski Freudian Seduction and the Fallacies of Dictatorship; V.Neverow PART II: PRELUDES TO WAR: POLITICS IN THE NOVELS, AESTHETICS IN THE NONFICTION Acts of Artistic Vision, Acts of Aggression: Art and Abyssinia in Virginia Woolf's Fascist Italy; L.C.Harris 'Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind': Fascism and Chastity in Mrs. Dalloway; L.Low Of Oceans and Opposition: The Waves , Mosley and the New Party; J.Berman Monstrous Conjugations: The Anti-Fascist Writings of Virginia and Leonard Woolf; N.Rosenfeld PART III: VOICES AGAINST TYRANNY: WOOLF AMONG OTHER WRITERS 'Finding new words and creating new methods': Three Guineas and The Handmaid's Tale; M.Joannou Seduced by Fascism: Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, the Woman Who Did Not Write Three Guineas; L.Giachero External Fascism and Its 'Home Haunts' in the Leavises' Attacks on Bloomsbury and Woolf'; M.A.Travis Dystopian Modernism vs; Utopian Feminism: Burdekin, Woolf, and West Respond to the Rise of Fascism; L.Stec A Selected Bibliography on Virginia Woolf, Fascism, and Gender Index

'...this splendid collection of essays...expands our appreciation of Woolf and other radical feminists of the late 1930s.' - Virginia Woolf Miscellany