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A room of one's own: On the heritage of gender inequality

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In this work, I will analyze the topic of the heritage of gender inequality and the reasons of women’s lower position in the modern society. I will explore Virginia Woolf’s essay “A room of one’s own” in which she described the struggle of women in the early 20th century to break into men...

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A Room of One’s Own: On the heritage of
gender inequality.

Almost a century ago in the essay “A Room of One’s Own” Virginia Woolf deplored the

absence of the women literal authority and role models needed to inspire and guide current and

future generations of women writers. For Woolf, it is not the lack of talent of women writer that

could explain the absence of female authors in Western literary canon. According to author, it

was a lack of learning opportunities, the burden of negative stereotypes and the domestic duties

that deprive women to become a good writer and even scholars. This paper will examine the

gender inequality described in A Room of One’s Own and will compare them with the situation

and gender role of women in the 21st century.

In “A Room of One’s Own” Woolf described the struggle of women in the early 20th

century to break into men-dominated areas and exposed some of the gender inequalities

regarding women’s such as access and participation in cultural life. Woolf made a wide analysis

of the reasons there were so few good women novelists, artists, or writers for so long a time. She

described her experience when she wasn't allowed to enter the library and step to the grass field

by a beadle “… ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College

or furnished with a letter of introduction … Fellow and scholars only allowed on the grass!

Ladies not admitted without a letter of introduction” (2000: 2156). This experience is not a

casual one; it gives us a good example of unfair gender discrimination of that time.

Reading this book, we can feel the same rage and resentment the author felt while

exposing to us the absence and exclusion of women through history. But she goes further, in her

essay, Woolf also examined the conditions and reasons that made it difficult for women to be

, artists or novelists. She put forward some reasons that could explain why women were given so

limited roles and opportunities. She revealed details about how they were often kept in the

unfortunate and inferior positions by men in the patriarchal system.

First of all, Woolf talks about financial dependence of women on men; women could

not be great artists or novelists because of the great material constrain. The reason is that there

was simply no freedom for them. The patriarchal system did not allow women to possess what

they could earn and not only dowry (consisting of household goods and her own clothing) but

also all properties and possessions woman could have or inherit before marriage passed to be her

husband properties:

…in the first place, to earn money was impossible for them, and in the

second, had it been possible, the law denied them the right to possess what

money they earned…Every penny I [representing any woman] earn, they

may have said, will be taken from me and disposed of according to my

husband’s wisdom. (as cited in Abrams, 2000: 2164)

As a result of this financial dependence, women were only provided the secondary roles

and were widely considered a man's property. It is important to point out that some women were

willing to marry just because marriage was the only allowed route to financial security or to

escape an uncongenial family situation. This brings us to the conclusion that women’s poverty

primarily brings inequality. As the author concludes, “Intellectual freedom depends upon

material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor,

not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time . . .” (2000: 2166)

Nevertheless, despite having all doors closed Woolf found some examples of women’s

rebellious and nonconformist spirit as Jane Austen, a woman novelist, who had to be “careful

that her occupation should not be suspected by servants or visitors or any persons beyond her

own family party” and she was thankful that “a hinge creaked, so that she might hide her

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