Written under the threat of impending fascism and war, Three Guineas is one of Virginia Woolf's most courageous works, calling women to rebel against the male-dominated order.

When an anti-war association asks her for financial aid, Virginia Woolf decides not to give all of her "three guineas" to the association, but to divide two guineas between a foundation for women's education and an association that works to find jobs for women. According to her, it is the patriarchal order, not women, that is responsible for wars, and the patriarchal order must be defeated along with fascism. Woolf identifies similarities between the Nazis' treatment of Jews and the male-dominated order's treatment of women, and sees gender discrimination as a problem at least as important as class and racial discrimination. Written just before the Second World War, Three Guineas is the great writer's sharp and intelligent critique of gender inequality and fascism.

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