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Virgina Woolf - A Room of One's Own (The Beadle: Mary at river, walks…
Virgina Woolf - A Room of One's Own
Genre: is it a memoir? Meta-fiction /meta-writing; this text is flowy
"women and fiction": what is fiction? Like fiction about women, women in fiction, women who write fiction?
narrator v author: a woman, Mary Beton/Seton/Carmichael/by any name you please (5).
questioning last names (because of marriage?); create a fictional story highlights the
fiction
of it; short circuits assumptions about women and authorship
The Beadle: Mary at river, walks across the grass, dude interrupts her and says "only Fellows and scholars" allowed (6)
being denied ability to keep thinking: disturbing her ritual; highly gendered separation
oppression from university spaces/religious spaces
Library and access: not allowed in unless with a Fellow or a letter (7-8); ironic 'regretting'; just policy
quickness: shut down as soon as it happens
analogy to women's body: "venerable" and "breast" saying knowledge belongs to women as well
fishing metaphor: the process of crafting an idea; inquiry and thought process;
Mary's fish: small and the kind you want to put back in to get bigger; small ideas vs big ideas: the
development
of ideas: fish need food and time; the longer you think the more developed ideas are
Way Out: If women are being barred and policed and don't have access to time, knowledge, and space, what's the solution
a room of one's own and some money (about 30,000 pounds)
Maybe? Like it's better than now; we already know women can't do things, but like now we can? Sexism has evolved: women need more than this?
allows women to create
as woman
, but if we still only have male ways to write, then it's a problem
How is this still framed through whiteness as universal? How does this come with a certain privilege and access?
(10)-the money at university "costly equipment"
INHERITANCE and patrilineality