Both femininity and masculinity harbor literary potential in their own respect. ... Virginia Woolf provides a first-hand account of such discrimination inA Room of One's Own? ... Woolf herself was even denied the right to situate alongside a riverbed, allowing her to concentrate on writing. ... While Woolf provided a first-hand account of women's deprivation, Hooks? ... Women now must publish under their own names though, and let their audience slowly evolve from its irrational and unfair criticalness. ...

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As one can see from these statistics, as the tradition of women writers grew so as did the number of women writers. In Virginia Woolf's, A Room Of One's Own Woolf argues, the reasoning behind the struggle of aspiring women writers prior to the twentieth century was greatly due to the lack of build up of women in the literary arts thus the lack of women's tradition. ... In Woolf's essay, she states: "For we think back through our mothers if we are women". ... Adeline Virginia Woolf, better known to her readers as Virginia Woolf, also know to occasionally write under ...

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Virginia Woolf has been recognized as one of the most important and influential feminist writer's in the twentieth century. In her book, A Room of One's Own, she discusses many views on women in the sixteenth century. ... Hopefully, women will be treated as one and have the same equality as a man. ...

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In her essay "When We Dead Awaken," Rich refers to the astonishment she felt when, while rereading Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, she noticed previously undetected emotions emanating from the text. She refers to the tone of "dogged tentativeness" evident in Woolf's work as a familiar one: "Virginia Woolf is addressing an audience of women, but she is acutely conscious...of being overheard by men (p.169)." This is the main obstacle Rich is striving against: writing not from within one's self, bu...

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Feminism not like a way of life, but a system of everyone becoming equal. "The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." – Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own). Feminism, a set of movements and ideologies that defin...

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