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This specified number of essays, edited by way of prime Woolf student, brings jointly for the 1st time a major attention of Virginia Woolf's writing in the political context of fascism. Virginia Woolf and Fascism probes Woolf's fiction and non-fiction from Mrs. Dalloway in 1927 to among the Acts , 1941, for her responses not just to the transforming into menaces of dictators overseas, but in addition to mounting facts of fascist ideology at domestic in England. The essays current a portrait of Woolf as a lady author who used to be politically engaged, and actively protesting opposed to a worldview which aggressively unique ladies for oppression.
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Triumph of the Will presents history as military history, as the history of the nation, whose people are passive sufferers, who wait to be delivered by men who are leaders, who bring about a quasi religious new beginning. In the two hours and 20 minutes of the film, Riefenstahl gives filmic expression to the idea that National Socialist men embody not only German history but World history. This is history as myth and Wysocki calls Riefenstahl appropriately ‘ruler over men’s myths’. ‘Leni Riefenstahl elevates the lives of men into the world order.
I can imagine Woolf asking herself the same question, experiencing from the very attack Lewis had launched against her, the depths to which ‘gender is a social system that divides power’, 7 and recognizing how entirely women were (and continue to be) exploited and excluded from public life. And though it may be as Mackinnon suggests, that feminism has articulated no theory of the state, I believe that Lewis’s overly emphatic defense of a masculine status quo coupled with the rise of fascism in Europe inspired Woolf to build the foundation necessary to formulate a feminist theory of the state.
TGs, p. 58) 26 Virginia Woolf and Fascism The Nazis’ policy towards women reveals even more starkly this connection between a notion of gender based on biology, militarism, and nationalism. In a speech to the National Socialist women during the 1934 party congress in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler defined the fundamental duties of men and women in the following way: The same heroic courage that man summons up on the battlefield, woman summons up in patient devotion, in patient suffering and endurance. Every child that she brings into the world is a battle that she undergoes for the Being or Non-Being of her people (Volk).