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A 12 page (9 pp. + 3 pp. annotated bibliography) paper which examines how far the text goes as a work of feminism, but since many people feel it is a political work, is it possible for the concepts of feminism and politics to coincide? Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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When one pages back through history, images of women leading suffragette marches are conjured, which intermingles the notion of feminist equality with the vote that would ensure participation in
the political process. It is doubtful anyone ever saw Virginia Woolf at any of these public demonstrations because, for her, feminism was more than waving banners or giving speeches.
As she conceived it, feminism was not something that could be outwardly articulated until it could be inwardly understood. This was why Woolf fought so fervently for female
artistic expression because she believed this paved the way for complete feminine equality in society and ultimately politics. Although her 1929 semi-autobiographical stream-of-consciousness masterpiece, A Room of Ones Own,
focused essentially on higher education for women, beginning with the real-life Woolf lecturing on the topic of "Women and Fiction" Newnham and Girton colleges, it has come to represent "the
first text of feminist criticism, the model of both theory and practice" (Marcus 79). In her article, "Still Practice, A/Wrested Alphabet: Toward a Feminist Aesthetic," Jane Marcus referred to
A Room of Ones Own as an interactive, but restricted dialogue. She wrote, "Woolf has transformed the formidable lecture form into an intimate conversation among feminine equals. Men
are excluded" (Marcus 79). She has, in essence, constructed an alternate feminist universe that was in sharp contrast to the patriarchy that had been firmly in place for centuries.
The greater task at hand would be to integrate this world to the existing male-dominated structure. In the first chapter of A Room of Ones Own, Virginia Woolf symbolically
illustrates the intellectual divisions between men and women. When Mary Beton arrives at the fictitious Oxbridge University to speak about women and fiction, she is turned away at the
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