Saturday 12 April [1919] These ten minutes are stolen from [Daniel Defoe’s] Moll Flanders … A great writer — & Forster has never read his books! I was beckoned by Forster from the [London] Library as I approached. We shook hands very cordially; & yet I always feel him shrinking sensitively from me, as a woman, a clever woman, an up to date woman. Feeling this I commanded him to read Defoe, & left him, & went & got some more Defoe….

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

1. Modern war and the militarization of domestic life 2. Destroying the innocent: the arrival of the air raid, 1914-16 3. Redefining the battlezone: responding to intensified aerial warfare, 1917-18 4. Writing and rewriting modern warfare: memory, representation, and the legacy of the air raid in interwar Britain 5. Inventing civil defense: imagining and planning for the war to come 6. Trying to prevent the war to come: efforts to remove the threat of air raids 7. Facing the future of air power: responding to interwar air raids 8. Preparing the public for the next war: the expansion of air raid precautions 9. Protecting the innocent: gas masks and the domestication of air raid precautions 10. Responding to the air war's return: the militarized domestic sphere from Munich to the Blitz 11. Representing the new air war: morale and the domestication of the air raid in wartime popular culture 12. Conclusion: air raids and the domestication of modern war.

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At Home and under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz

Borrowing from and refining Peggy McIntosh’s (1988) ideas on white privilege, this article introduces the concept of “body privilege” and examines how a lack of body privilege materializes in everyday life. Interviews with forty-two “overweight” women and men reveal a body privilege continuum distinctly patterned by gender and race. Specifically, while a majority of participants are not able to experience a level of comfort when navigating public spaces, women generally report more instances of body nonprivilege. Moreover, a number of Hispanic and white women experience a heightened level of “body consciousness” that leads to some form of “body management.” This article documents and discusses this body privilege and its racial and gendered embodiment, along with differences between body privilege and McIntosh’s original concept. It also discusses how body privilege sheds new light on crucial debates regarding cultural ideals, women’s bodies, and agency.

Navigating Public Spaces: Gender, Race, and Body Privilege in Everyday Life

This essay argues that Woolf's engagement with the war's legacy prompted her to represent a new kind of mourning practice, one that spurns consolation and closure. In critiquing the consoling rhetoric of God, king, and country, Jacob's Room articulates a politics and ethics of mourning linked to Woolf'sfeminist aims. To the Lighthouse turns the question of consolation back upon Woolf's own medium, showing how a female painter deconstructs the notion of redemptive art and represents a perpetual mourning of loss.

Consolation Refused: Virginia Woolf, The Great War, and Modernist Mourning

Introduction: modernism beyond the Blitz 1. Virginia Woolf and the pastoral Patria 2. Rebecca West's anti-Bloomsbury Group 3. The situational politics of Four Quartets 4. The neutrality of Henry Green 5. Evelyn Waugh and the ends of minority culture Coda: national historiography after the post-War settlement Bibliography.

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Modernism and World War II

The Singing of the Real World: The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf's Fiction

These essays explore the impact of ideas about war and conflict on Virginia Woolf's writing. It shows the roots of her sensitivity to violence and how she connected the myths and realities of war with the private violence of the patriarchal family.

Virginia Woolf and war : fiction, reality, and myth

Her revolutionary novels and essays have inspired generations of feminists, and her life has aroused both interest and speculation. In Virginia Woolf A-Z, the author's works and autobiographical writings are set in the context of her infamous social milieu. Eight "family" trees map out the complicated relationships and living arrangements of the Bloomsbury Group, and a chronology gives a quick overview of the major events of Woolf's life. With over 1,300 entries and fifty illustrations, this desktop companion is the ideal antidote to those afraid of Virginia Woolf, and valuable beyond measure to those already familiar with her work.

Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers to Her Life, Work, and Critical Reception

Representation croisee des differentes hierarchies sociales et sexuelles dans les oeuvres de V. Woolf (Melymbrosia, The Voyage out, Night and Day) et de son mari (The Village in the Jungle, The Wise Virgins)

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Refractions of Desire: The Early Fiction of Virginia and Leonard Woolf

Preface. The Social Construction of Gender: What Makes a Man? Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber. The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants, Suzanne J. Kessler. Does Size Matter?, Susan Bordo. X: A Fabulous Child's Story, Lois Gould. Growing Up: At Home, At School. The Socialization Component, Eleanor E. Maccoby. The "Act Like a Man" Box, Paul Kivel. Through the Tunnel, Doris Lessing. Girls and Boys Together...But Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary School, Barrie Thorne. Schools and Gender, R.W. Connell. "South Park", Blue Men, Anality, and Market Masculinity, Judith Kegan Gardiner. The Ninjas, the X-Men, and the Ladies: Playing with Power and Identity in an Urban Primary School, Anne Haas Dyson. Playing Games, Learning Gender. Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities, Michael A. Messner. "All-American Guys", Bernard Lefkowitz. The Making of a Bully, Susan Douglas. Trigger-Happy Birthday, Kiku Adatto. Husbands, Sons, and Fathers. Who Needs Men?, Barbara Ehrenreich and Lionel Tiger. Why Can't a Good Man Be Sexy? Why Can't a Sexy Man Be Good?, Naomi Segal. A Father's Story, Andre Dubus. So I Guess You Know What I Told Him, Stephen Dobyns. Working Lives, Gendered Institutions. Advantages and Disadvantages of "Being a Man", Jim Allan. Managing to Kill: Masculinities and the Space Shuttle "Challenger" Explosion, James W. Messerschmidt. The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Scott Russell Sanders. The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions, Christine L. Williams. Sex, Love, and Power. Lust, Susan Minot. Men-Only Spaces as Effective Sites for Education and Transformation in the Battle to End Sexual Assault, Stephen Montagna. Using Pornography, Robert Jensen. Sex, Friendship, and Gender Roles Among Gay Men, Peter M. Nardi. The Heterosexual Questionnaire, M. Rochlin. Black Masculinities: A Unique History. Between Apocalypse and Redemption: John Singleton's "Boyz N the Hood", Michael Eric Dyson. Reconstructing Black Masculinity, bell hooks. Like a Winding Sheet, Ann Petry. Theorists on Constructions of Black Masculinities, Khaula Murtadha-Watts. At War: The Shadow of a Soldier. Wars, Wimps and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War, Carol Cohn. Paintball as Combat Sport, James William Gibson. Seville Statement on Violence. The Messenger of the Lost Battalion, Gregory Orfalea. Men Changing: Visions of a Future. Healing from Manhood: A Radical Meditation on the Movement from Gender Identity to Moral Identity, John Stoltenberg. Placing Multiracial Feminism at the Center of Political Discourse, Michael A. Messner.

Mark Hussey

Papers

The Singing of the Real World: The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf's Fiction

Virginia Woolf and war : fiction, reality, and myth

Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers to Her Life, Work, and Critical Reception

Refractions of Desire: The Early Fiction of Virginia and Leonard Woolf

Masculinities: Interdisciplinary Readings