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Virginia Woolf talks about how a woman needs a room of one's own in order to write. But what about the room that Virginia Woolf wrote in herself? This source talks about the house that she lived in when she wrote the book and how it is getting sold by her family.

A good essay written about A room of one's own

This source basically describes the book, but poses the questions that were the underlying purpose of Woolf in writing it. Shows how Woolf was a pioneer in gaining women rights and that A Room of One's Own is still relevant today, "every time individual creativity comes into conflict with the demands of a very commercial world."

This article covers the debate over whether or not women should be allowed to participate in combat in the military. Like In a room of one's own, it is a matter of social inequality. At the time a room of one's own was written, women we're considered not good enough to be writers. Perhaps in the future, women will be considered good enough to participate in combat.

"The conditions that are favourable to imaginative work are discussed, including the right relation of the sexes. Finally an attempt is made to outline the present state of affairs and to forecast what effect comparative freedom and independence will have upon women's artistic work in the future"

This source outlines Woolf's authorial purpose in the novel which includes to describe the limitations that one sex or social class will have when trying to do certain jobs and activities.

This is the only part of this article that pertains to "A Room of One's Own" but it reinforces Virginia Woolf's main point throughout her novel. "It struck me as telling that de Pizan thinks of constructing a city of one's own much as Virginia Woolf thought of constructing a room of one's own-and, in part, for the same reason: so much of what men do imposes upon and impedes women that a natural thought is simply to find a place apart, where men's presence cannot bring to bear their baleful influence."(Jeff VanderMeer)

Talks about the development of women's place in the workplace over time and notes that around the time of the publication of "A Room of One's Own", female union activists were facing abduction and other problems, and FDR appointed Frances Perkins, a woman, Secretary of Labor in 1931.

This an interesting article, especially the second to last paragraph opposing what Woolf said with "These women "applied the cultural analysis of the feminists [before them] to words, sentences, and structures of language in the novel." However, Showalter criticizes their works for their androgynistic natures.For all its concern with sexual connotations and sexuality, the writing avoids actual contact with the body, disengaging from people into "a room of one's own." (Elizabeth lee)

This article is how one women breaks down the three periods in which women have written in, and even in the most modern one she describes how they only face "some freedom" and that true freedom may never come.

"By appealing to her readers' senses, Woolf liberates deep emotional responses while at the same time exposing a host of related impressions too cumbersome to discuss in full but too persuasive to ignore"

This source shows how Woolf's descriptions are vivid and she gets her point across using strong diction to evoke an emotional response and sell the reader on her ideas.

The site points out that Woolf points out that women were inhibited from success, and typically doomed to failure as a result of the restrictions placed upon them from society. They couldn't be financially independent, so they never had time to learn and experience the world, so they weren't intellectually free, etc.

The Times brings up an interesting point. Men struggled and still succeeded. Women struggled and got nowhere. Part of it must be the culture, where women often did not usually exert themselves to something ambitious, whereas men are expected to. For most of the women's rights movement, perhaps the goal wasn't to force the institution to create laws for equality, but in the bigger picture, sense that it was to show women had initiative, motivation and a purpose. 

This is sad. What Woolf describes in her essay, that a woman must have means and money to be able to think freely, one would think that a woman in a modern society, where no continent is neglected of technology and accessible tools for the creative space, is able to share her own thoughts and words to express her mind. No-- her concerns nearly a century ago ring true today, women are commodities, sold to slavery, prostitution, forced marriage, social censorship, many women of the world are trapped in a system constantly exploited by men. 

This site discusses the influence of women authors from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, once they became an educated force that was capabale of writing in a more public sense.

This quote here shows Woolf's target audience which combines not only women but also working-class people. This shows that her ideas of oppression and the need to rise up can be intertwined in both groups of people as they are completely differnet yet united by a set of beliefs. Therefore, the workrs of The Jungle, Fast Food Nation etc. can follow Woolf's principles

It is interesting how Woolf thought so negatively about the social gap between men and women, and the poverty of women that kept them from freely thinking, yet had no qualms about depending on servants and other domestic help. These people are in similar situations to the ones she portrays women to hold, which makes her treatment of them suprising (she tries to avoid contact with them by writing her orders in order to avoid them all together)

Virginia wolf demonstrates her frustration about the slow progress of women's rights. This document specifically showcases exactly how slow this progress is. Like the reform movements of other cases of social injustice, change is hard to come about. In the Grapes of Wrath, the migrant workers wait forever for change to occur in their awful lives.

Virginia Woolf ties in the two classes of women and low wage workers. She understands the full comlpexity that workers esp. women are taking advantage of and used for their labor while compensated for with lousy pay. Knowing the the bosses are cheap with their money as seen in the other novels read, they know they can get away with stiffing heir employees as there are many other people wanting for jobs to open up

This shows how men dominate women in society which juxtaposes the bosses domination of their low class employees. The author uses words like dominate, tyrannize, choose, or reject to show the power and contol that lies in the hands of the upper classes . Therefore, Woolf and other authors like Sinclair and Steinbeck speak out against the upper class and urge the lower classes to unite and fight.

While this site is called feminist.org, it brings up an extremely pressing issue in society today, sexual harassment. Women may make up about half of the workforce and are not legally allowed to be discriminated against, but they still face hardships. The feeling of superiority that many men have over women leads to them sexually harass them in a number of cases that is ridiculous.

According to this article, J.K. Rowling, the formerly impoverished author of the Harry Potter Series, was the most successful author of the 2000-2010 decade. That seems like a big advance for poor women in literature.

This is a list of other novels dealing with women and how they are oppressed and such.