Feminism from the point of view of Virginia Woolf

1. S. Sindhiya
Assistant Professor
Department of English(SF)
SBK College, Aruppukottai.
Class: III BA English
Subject: Women’s Writings In English
Topic: Feminism

2. Feminism
• Modern term for Feminism is Womanism
• Struggle for the right of the women
• Women ‘Angel in the House’ – Past history.
• Virginia Woolf calls Feminism as ‘gynocriticism’
• Elaine Showalter calls Feminism as ‘Ecriture
Feminine’

3. Important Feminist works
Virginia Woolf:
* A Room of One’s Own
* Professions for Women
Simone de Beauvoir:
The Second Sex
Mary Wolf stone craft:
A Vindication of the Rights of women
Shashi Deshpande:
Writing From the Margin
Stuart Mill:
Subjection of Women
Engels:
The Origin of the Family

4. Important Quotations from Virginia Woolf’s ‘A
Room of One’s Own
• “A women must have money and a room of her own if she is to write
fiction”
• “Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor”
• “Why did men drink wine and women water?”
• Women- “attractiveness of, small size of brain of, mental, moral and
physical inferiority of weaker muscles of…”
• “Marriage was not an affair of personal affection, but of family avarice”.
• “How we are fallen! Fallen by mistaken rules, and education’s more than
nature’s fool; debarred from all improvements of the mind”.
• “My lines decried, and my employment thought as an useless folly or fault”
• “women live like Bats or Owls, labour like Beasts and die like worms”