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BOOK DRUM
"Woolf's narrator is also supremely confident in her put-downs of male pomposity or arrogance (whilst, at the same time, not hiding the  feelings of vulnerability, inadequacy, and anger which assertions of male superiority may evoke in women). For example, when feeling slightly overwhelmed by the preponderance of dry literature written by men about women at the British Museum, she shows her disregard for it all by 'drawing cartwheels' on the book order-slips, and remarking facetiously, 'I could not possibly go home, I reflected and add as a serious contribution to the study of women and fiction ... that the age of puberty amongst the South Sea Islanders is nine - or is it ninety?' There is the same sense of amused indignation and pleasurable devilment in her tone when she remarks later in the text: 'Lord Birkenhead is of opinion - but really I am not going to trouble to copy out Lord Birkenhead's opinion upon the writing of women."
http://www.bookdrum.com/books/a-room-of-ones-own/9780141183534/review.html

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LOUISE BOGAN
From New Republic said "Her argument, shorn of the alternately loose and caught-back style, the point-to-point method which she has perfected—like the technique of a moving camera, that projects the argument through space and time, as it develops, by means of such phrases as "I thought, opening the door," or "I repeated, standing under the colonnade among the pigeons and the prehistoric canoes"—is this: Women have always been busy and poor. They have had children, households and husbands to tend. Their money, when it existed at all, was, up to a short time ago, under the control of their male relatives. They have had, at best, imperfect educations; they have been oppressed by the weight of social decorum and by the fantastic legend of their mental inferiority. In English literature, throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, while men by the hundreds became as articulate as mating birds, not a creative female voice was heard. Woman appears in literature in every form, from the Wife of Bath to Lady Macbeth."
https://newrepublic.com/article/117235/louise-bogan-reviews-virginia-woolfs-room-ones-own

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A article from New York Times wrote "Her theme, to say a good deal about the true nature of women and of fiction. She says little that has not been said before; indeed, she sets out to prove a point that most intelligent people accept as truistic; but seldom has the point been driven home more cogently or embellished with wittier comment.

With the inherent taste of a novelist Mrs. Woolf chooses to speak through an "I" who is and yet is not herself and to enforce her argument through incident: lunch in a men's college, dinner in a women's college, a view of London from an upstairs window, a ramble among the books in her own library. This slightly fictional setting tends to impersonalize Mrs. Woolf's attitude at the same time that it gives artificial personality to her remarks and breaks up a purely historical analysis with running comment - and with, it must be admitted, some highly irrelevant passages of description".
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/specials/woolf-room.html?mcubz=1

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Why common reading at LMC? What's your take?

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Why common reading at LMC? What's your take?

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I feel that the reason
Le Moyne College has this common reading is to get everyone on a college reading level basic. Just how in high school you had summer reading to go into the next grade. It was to help prepare you more for the next level and to help you get a feel on how you should be comprehending things through harder reads. Especially it being our first year in college I feel that they want us to get a better feeling on how the reading level is going to be for college.

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I felt that it was astounding to me reading this book, which was first published in 1929, is how relevant it still is today. This problem is only "new" in the sense that at least women have the opportunity to be educated when it used to be they weren't even taught how to read and write.

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I think that in the book Woolf shows the various stages at which her access to the world are blocked. It is a harsh story, and it illustrates the difference between men's and women's opportunities perfectly.
I am always a bit cautious when I read political essays. There is so much attached to the question of feminism today. But this is where she really surprises me, and where I feel that she has written the book. She does not end by delivering a hate speech towards men, and by proclaiming that women should take over their roles and become more like them. She rather insists that women should be given the same freedom to develop their own strengths:

"It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?"

This is something very close to my heart, and a reason why I struggle with the political feminism of my home country. I have never been able to accept that I must strive to be the SAME as a man, rather than to have the same basic opportunities to develop in my own way. I have never understood why we try to impose masculine ideals on women instead of creating an environment of respect for feminine strengths.

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I feel that Woolf takes her readers through the history of women writers, and makes sure that the reader cannot fail to see how brief it is and how limited, and why. Woolf states that all modern women should acknowledge their ancestors who fought for five minutes. She makes sure that women know that they can reject the framework and the form down to the very sentences that are given to them by men to find their own voice. However, this voice should be, ultimately, sexless. In her view, one should be "man-womanly," or "woman-manly," to write enduring classics. She doesn't let women down easy, either. The end of the book points out all the advantages young women have and yet they still don't run countries, wars, or companies, and there's no excuse for that. It's an exhortation to not squander everything the women's movement fought for.

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"Not only does she develop conversation into a full-fledged art of its own, she also uses conversation as a metaphor for artistic practices that transform the relation between human subjects and the world".
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T001&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA498199680&docType=Essay&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=LitRC&contentSet=GALE%7CA498199680&searchId=R4&userGroupName=nysl_ce_lemoy&inPS=true

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Author: Virginia Woolf
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Volume 2 page-107 1920-1924
"I felt that the audience was much closer to drink & beating & prison than any of us".