The statement excludes the possibility for woman to write and read as their creative work was not taken seriously. In her work, Virginia Woolf exemplifies the fact to prove her theory of unequal education thus saying only poor men were the great poets. 230).īoth feminist writers acknowledge that fact that women are rather limited in the access for the education. On the other hand the author considers it necessary to admit that though “sex is out of the question”, “the line of subordination in the mental powers is never to be pass over” (Wren 2004 p. She refers to women not as sensible females but as rational creatures. Here, the writer insist on the fact that women should possess the same moral values the men have. Considering this, Wollstonecraft writes: “Women, I argue from analogy, are degraded by the same propensity to enjoy the present moment and, at last, despise the freedom they have not sufficient to struggle to attain” (Wren et al. In contrast, she supports the idea, that there must be female-male equality but in certain spheres of life. Like in the previous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman reveals the feministic views of the authors.

Here, the author contradicts herself because, on the one hand, she is against the man’s influence on a woman’s mind, and on the other hand, she tries to meet halfway in order to find the golden medium. At the same time, we see the line: “The normal and comfortable state of being is that when the two live in harmony together, spiritually co-operating” (Wren et al. It is a mistake for a woman to read them, for she will inevitably look for something that will not find” (Wren et al. In that regard, the writer states: “.men that is to say, are now writing only the male side of their brains.

The writer is outraged by the way men underestimate the women’s role in history.

Here, Wolf touches upon the matter of education that is unequally distributed in gender terms. A Room of One’s Own by Wolf is the most famous essay that concentrates on discussion of connection between ‘women’ and ‘fiction’ thus devising the theory of relations between gender and writing.

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf