Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf urges her readers to reconsider traditionally accepted constructions of sexuality and gender. Woolf achieves this through a biographical narrative of a man who experiences the true meaning of masculinity and femi Continue Reading...
Virginia Woolf to the Light House
Biography of the author
Virginia Woolf, the British author who made efforts towards making an original contribution to the structure of the novel, was an eminent writer of feminist essays, a critic writer in The Ti Continue Reading...
In "The Mark on the Wall" and "A Room of One's Own," we see how this style proved to be successful for Woolf in many ways. It allowed her to experiment with stream of consciousness thinking and writing and it also opens the door for other feminist w Continue Reading...
An excellent example of a key component in the sexual identity of a woman is the compulsion to get married which most women (particularly during Woolf's day) are bound to experience.
Orlando feels this sentiment as well, which the following quotati Continue Reading...
When conducting an ideological critique, the researcher must be concerned with the way ideology is evidenced (or repressed) in the artifact, and a useful concept for identifying these "traces of ideology" is the notion of the ideograph, or the "poli Continue Reading...
Women and Gender Studies
Of all the technologies and cultural phenomena human beings have created, language, and particularly writing, is arguably the most powerful, because it is the means by which all human experience is expressed and ordered. As Continue Reading...
During this penultimate period of violence under Rojas, the violence that wracked Colombia assumed a number of different characteristics that included an economic quality as well as a political one with numerous assassinations taking place. These w Continue Reading...