Virginia Woolf

The Expression: An International Multidisciplinary e-Journal, 2023

Virginia Woolf was a prominent feminist writer of the early 20th century, who addressed various issues related to gender inequality and gender roles in her literary works. Her books, A Room of One's Own and Orlando, are considered significant contributions to feminist thought. A Room of One's Own, published in 1929, is one of Woolf's most famous books, which explores the theme of women and literature. The book argues that women writers have been historically marginalized and oppressed due to various societal and institutional barriers, such as lack of access to education, financial independence, and opportunities for creative expression. She emphasizes the importance of women having their own space and resources to pursue their literary ambitions and asserts that women need "a room of one's own and five hundred a year" to write freely and independently. This study is prepared to present pearls and pitfalls of the feminist thought and explains Virginia Woolf's ideas of equality between sexes.

International journal of health sciences

This study attemps to compare the meaning and importance of feminism and similarities of the ways in which Virginia Woolf and Mary Wollstonecraft’s description feminism in their books. The reason this topic was chosen in the study is to investigate the importance of feminism and how it happened in past times. The main reason these two writers were chosen is because they were two very important and powerful women writers for feminism. According to the results of the study, women and men were expected to be in separate areas in society during the time the authors lived. Men were expected to go to work, while women were expected to be at home and take care of household chores. These two powerful women writers have argued in their works of feminism: men and women are equal and women's place is not just home.

International Journal of Applied Research

Abstract--Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway (1925) primarily focuses on Clarissa Dalloway’s multifaceted identity. In this study I intend to shed more light on the problematic of subjectivity from feminist perspective. The present study draws on Woolf’s own understanding regarding the formation of identity as well as Simone de Beauvoir’s, Judith Butler’s and Susan Bordo’s to locate Clarissa’s feminine qualities and resistance in the novel. All the above mentioned figures believe in the constructivity of identity formation: that Clarissa's identity, far from being given in advance for her to step into, emerge over time through discursive and other social practices; her identity is inflected and constructed by ideologies of gender and other social constructs. The interactions between language and gender on the one hand, and feminist theory on the other, are of tremendous significance in this study. The present study challenges the essentialist notion that identities in general, and gender identities in particular, are inevitable, natural and fixed. Clarissa’s identity needs to be constructed socially through language, but this very language is patriarchal and therefore, marginalizes feminine identity. I conclude that Clarissa Dalloway as a social being is not able to achieve a stable and unified position as a subject and her struggles are frustrated and ultimately lead to defeat of constructing a unified subjectivity.

Genres/genre dans la littérature anglaise et américaine, vol.1. Eds. Alfandary, Broqua, 2015