Woolf on the Economics of Essay

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Again, Woolf's sarcasm rears its head here, as she unpacks the idea
that men should be so preoccupied in shaping an image of women that
conforms to the circumstances which a patriarchal society has manifested.
In this regard, there is a damning economic symbiosis between the real
subjugation of women and the images conjured of the fairer sex by their
alleged admirers. Woolf demonstrates the woman of fiction and the woman of
this point in history as both being concocted of male desires, ambitions
and materialist conceits. Here, monetary wealth is tantamount to sexual, marital and intellectual subjugation.

From the perspective of her time and place, Woolf sees something
irreconcilable in the conditions facing women, especially in the quest to
express themselves with literary honesty and accuracy. Today, there is
continued relevance to this idea as women still grapple for equal pay in
various lines of profession, where they struggle to obtain the same levels
of authority as their male counterparts and where their vantage battles to
gain respect in an artistic world accustomed to the male viewpoint.
Woolf's claimed association between economics and gender inequality remains
unfortunately pertinent today.

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