Word: woolf
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...Virginia Woolf once wrote that what women really wanted was a room of their own. Marge Piercy, in her latest novel, The Longings of Women, echoes that sentiment. Yet where Woolf infused her writing with the powerful appeal of a yearning for feminine creative space, Piercy identifies this fundamental instinct as a fear of losing material possessions...
...must take into consideration the Virginia Woolf Effect...
...Room of One's Own, Woolf wrote, "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Because women would adoringly (or pseudo adoringly) mirror men to themselves at twice their real stature and worth (thinks Woolf), the men, thus encouraged, felt wonderful and set forth to build empires. The inclination of American women today is not to mirror men at all, but to judge them at their true size at best -- and sometimes to evaluate them at half-size or quarter-size. Perhaps...
...Virginia Woolf Effect has a twin. Men were similarly encouraged to overvalue and romanticize women. Women now profess to find that sort of idealization stultifying and ultimately imprisoning. Would so much be lost if each sex mirrored the other at twice the real size and stature...
...elegant, feminist cri de coeur, A Room of One's Own, written in 1928, Virginia Woolf wondered why men, who have so much power in the world, always seem to be so angry. She did not get it that in addition to men's natural male-beastly competitiveness, they get irritated about being such a disposable class of human beings in the world. If women are the victims, why is it the men who wind up dead? Not so long before Woolf wrote, for example, World War I destroyed an entire generation of European men on the battlefield -- 8.5 million...