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- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- From “Woman versus Indian” (1892)
- From “The Economic Parasitism of Women” (1902)
- From “Geographical Research as a Field for Women” (1916)
- From “Women’s Work for Peace” (1922)
- From Three Guineas (1938)
- From American Argument (1949)
- From The Second Sex (1949)
- From “Femmes africaines/African Women” (1951)
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Vernon Lee
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Emily Greene Balch
- Virginia Woolf
- Pearl S. Buck and Eslanda Robeson
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Jeanne Vialle
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Virginia Woolf
from 9 - Men, Women, and Gender
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- From “Woman versus Indian” (1892)
- From “The Economic Parasitism of Women” (1902)
- From “Geographical Research as a Field for Women” (1916)
- From “Women’s Work for Peace” (1922)
- From Three Guineas (1938)
- From American Argument (1949)
- From The Second Sex (1949)
- From “Femmes africaines/African Women” (1951)
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Vernon Lee
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Emily Greene Balch
- Virginia Woolf
- Pearl S. Buck and Eslanda Robeson
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Jeanne Vialle
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
Now that we have tried to see how we can help you to prevent war by attempting to define what is meant by protecting culture and intellectual liberty let us consider your next and inevitable request: that we should subscribe to the funds of your society. For you, too, are an honorary treasurer, and like the other honorary treasurers in need of money. Since you, too, are asking for money it might be possible to ask you, also, to define your aims, and to bargain and to impose terms as with the other honorary treasurers. What then are the aims of your society? To prevent war, of course. And by what means? Broadly speaking, by protecting the rights of the individual; by opposing dictatorship; by ensuring the democratic ideals of equal opportunity for all. Those are the chief means by which as you say, “the lasting peace of the world can be assured.” Then, Sir, there is no need to bargain or to haggle. If those are your aims, and if, as it is impossible to doubt, you mean to do all in your power to achieve them, the guinea is yours – would that it were a million! The guinea is yours; and the guinea is a free gift, given freely.
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 497 - 502Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022