Body Politics and Clothing in Three Guineas. June 2025
Virginia Woolf Season 2024-25: Woolf and Politics
Lecture 10. Body Politics and Clothing in Three Guineas (1938)
Preoccupied with the Spanish Civil War and the chilling rise of Fascism, Woolf’s most obvious, urgent preoccupation in Three Guineas is war, and how to prevent it. However, more ‘delicate and intimate’ matters of the body also prove to be vital themes running through the text.
How should the body be fed, exercised and clothed? If it can be imprisoned arbitrarily, starved or mutilated, who does it belong to? And why are these questions, along with shame, modesty, cookery, fashion, and chastity so central to her anti-war stance?
These are some of the questions we’ll be exploring during the lecture, which will also look at clothing and food-related press cuttings in her scrapbooks and the unexpected background reading that inspired her arguments.
Live online lecture and seminar with Claire Davison, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Saturday 14 June 2025
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning/lunchtime in the Americas
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students and CAMcard holders
£27.00 members of the VWSGB
Virginia Woolf Season 2024-25: Woolf and Politics
Lecture 10. Body Politics and Clothing in Three Guineas (1938)
Preoccupied with the Spanish Civil War and the chilling rise of Fascism, Woolf’s most obvious, urgent preoccupation in Three Guineas is war, and how to prevent it. However, more ‘delicate and intimate’ matters of the body also prove to be vital themes running through the text.
How should the body be fed, exercised and clothed? If it can be imprisoned arbitrarily, starved or mutilated, who does it belong to? And why are these questions, along with shame, modesty, cookery, fashion, and chastity so central to her anti-war stance?
These are some of the questions we’ll be exploring during the lecture, which will also look at clothing and food-related press cuttings in her scrapbooks and the unexpected background reading that inspired her arguments.
Live online lecture and seminar with Claire Davison, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Saturday 14 June 2025
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning/lunchtime in the Americas
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students and CAMcard holders
£27.00 members of the VWSGB
Virginia Woolf Season 2024-25: Woolf and Politics
Lecture 10. Body Politics and Clothing in Three Guineas (1938)
Preoccupied with the Spanish Civil War and the chilling rise of Fascism, Woolf’s most obvious, urgent preoccupation in Three Guineas is war, and how to prevent it. However, more ‘delicate and intimate’ matters of the body also prove to be vital themes running through the text.
How should the body be fed, exercised and clothed? If it can be imprisoned arbitrarily, starved or mutilated, who does it belong to? And why are these questions, along with shame, modesty, cookery, fashion, and chastity so central to her anti-war stance?
These are some of the questions we’ll be exploring during the lecture, which will also look at clothing and food-related press cuttings in her scrapbooks and the unexpected background reading that inspired her arguments.
Live online lecture and seminar with Claire Davison, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Saturday 14 June 2025
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning/lunchtime in the Americas
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students and CAMcard holders
£27.00 members of the VWSGB