Virginia Woolf's Feminism

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Examines Woolf's work--fiction & essays--in light of her critique of society & social concerns. Discusses her modernist literary style; how her work depicts differences between the way women & men were treated in England; family relationships as reflecting existing social order; feminist issues; mother/daughter relations. References her literary works as examples.

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"Introduction
Virginia Woolf was a writer who was much concerned with the general plight of women in literature in her era. Indeed, she showed considerable interest and concern with the place of women in her society and with the need for women to foster a solidarity with one another, making her a feminist in her point of view. Her feminism derived from her perception of the very real discrimination experienced by women throughout Victorian society, and the woman as artist also had to overcome a degree of prejudice against her and her work. At the same time, it is evident that women in the arts did achieve a certain freedom from the structures of society that other women could not, and Woolf herself is a clear example of this. Woolf was a proponent of the new aesthetic sense that would come to be identified as..."

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