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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than… — Virginia Woolf

Essay · Feminist literature

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own · 1929
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Topic
Oppression of womenWomen's rightsMen and women
Genre
Feminist literature
Medium
Essay
Time
1929
Person
Virginia Woolf
Provenance
Current citation
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 3.
Original citation
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 3.

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