Virginia Woolf As Feminist Author:Naomi Black Before the Second World War and long before the second wave of feminism, Virginia Woolf argued that womens experience, particularly in the womens movement, could be the basis for transformative social change. Grounding Virginia Woolfs feminist beliefs in the everyday world, Naomi Black reclaims Three Guineas as a major feminist... more » document. Rather than a book only about war, Black considers it to be the best, clearest presentation of Woolfs feminism. Woolfs changing representation of feminism in publications from 1920 to 1940 parallels her involvement with the contemporary women' movement (suffragism and its descendants, and the pacifist, working-class Womens Co-operative Guild). Black guides us through Woolfs feminist connections and writings, including her public letters from the 1920s as well as "A Society," A Room of Ones Own, and the introductory letter to Life As We Have Known It. She assesses the lengthy development of Three Guineas from a 1931 lecture and the way in which the form and illustrations of the book serve as a feminist subversion of male scholarship. Virginia Woolf as Feminist concludes with a discussion of the continuing relevance of Woolf's feminism for third-millennium politics.« less