Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Woman and the Sterotypes about them.

Virginia Woolf says that, “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” The large problem Virginia says is that the mothers of her past generations did not worry about a financial future. “Mary’s mother…had thirteen children by a minister of the church.” “Now if she had gone intro business; had become a manufacturer of artificial silk r a magnate on the Stock Exchange; if she had left two or three hundred pounds to Fernham, we could have been sitting at our ease to-night…”
These natural stereotypes that have evolved due to history and the male/female role have tainted the futures hopes for an equal opportunity for both sexes. Woolf believes that woman give into men, by staying home and only being the mother and caregiver instead of going out and working. Woolf’s attitude in regards to these inequalities is obviously unfair but she does not show that shit put up a fight.
Simone de Beauvoir, on the other hand, speaks of “the myth of woman.” This myth refers to the incapability woman perceive to acquire to their gender. “To pose Woman is to pose the absolute Other, without reciprocity, denying against all experience that she is a subject, a fellow human being.” To have a mutual exchange of privileges, in de Beauvoir’s time was to present an unspoken about situation.
When I bring both Woolf and de Beauvoir opinion on the feminine inequality, I begin to realize that the idea of woman writers is a very harsh struggle and fought for reality. I feel that, for most of the feminine writing we do have for the earlier days, it is most likely not as profound as it could be due to the primitiveness and the barricades forced upon many female writers due to the extreme stereotypes received from society.

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