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There is a determined
need within the feminist movement to provide the fuel for interest in the
existence of women, the nature of that existence, the contributions and
detractions they may have had within certain cultures at different times.
This 5 page paper proposes that Virginia Woolf, in A Room Of Her Own, utilizes
the literary device of 'voice' to speak her truth about the role of women in a
patriarchal society. No additional sources are listed.
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of that existence, the contributions and detractions they may have had within certain cultures at different times. It is female centered as opposed to male identified. The result
of the patriarchal society has been the cultural devaluation of women. Virginia Woolf, in A Room Of Her Own, utilizes the literary device of voice to speak her truth
about the role of women in a patriarchal society. Feminism, as a rebuttal to the patriarchy, is an assertion that women as a group have been historically disadvantaged
relative to men of their race, class, ethnicity, or sexual identity; and a commitment to changing the structures that systemically privilege men over women. Woolf does not criticize, she
attempts to teach. Among the many voices that are seen in this novel is that of the didactic who presents her view on the art of writing as an
expert, without apology for her gender or for the possibility that she may be going outside of the accepted definition of gender roles. At one point she argues that
the complexity of the novel can be experienced emotionally, "But that emotion at once blends itself with others, for the "shape" is not made by the relation of stone to
stone, but by the relation of human being to human being" (71). She then takes on the voice of an advocate for the rights of women, suggesting that the
values depicted in novels "are, to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have
been made by the other sex . . . Yet it is the masculine values that prevail" (74). The need for separate spheres, of the dichotomy of work
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