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This 8 page paper examines the work of Kathy Phillips, Torgovnick, Tratner, as regards Woolf, colonialsim, sexuality and repression of women. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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below, her attitudes toward colonization are outlined as well as their potential for being linked to both sexual oppression and spiritual death for both oppressed and oppressor. VIRGINIA WOOLF
AGAINST EMPIRE Kathy Phillips work on Virginia Woolf points out the stiff anti-colonization sentiments instead of the staunch belief in it, as
has been suspected. In fact, Woolf is stating in all of her works is that oppression in any form is wrong, whether that be against women, foreign peoples in other
lands, or other ideologies. In many respects she states that Woolf makes the point that literature has played, perhaps the unwitting, accomplice in this oppression.
Her overall style of criticizing the use of women in literature and judging them for their depictions of progressiveness tends to couple the images of Empire as synonymous
with images of women. Her essay, Three Guineas, for example, shows the connection very well and as such "associates empire making, war making, and gender relations in a typical constellation"(Phillips
vii). The overarching message is quite clear: the desire to build an empire leads to war, mainly because it leads one to have to constantly defend its territories, and serves
to dehumanize both the invader and the invaded to the extent that the value of human life is lost(Phillips 123). Phillips states
that Woolf does not stop there, however, and instead, shows that the oppression of women serves as training for men in the oppression of colonial peoples. Additionally, Woolf attacks the
rigid social climate of her day by stating that the repressed and oppressed social conventions which lead to sexual frustrations are an underlying factor as to why militarianism is embraced
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