![]() ![]() ![]() Examining the careers and works of woman authors like Aphra Behn, Jane Austen, George Eliot and the Bronte sisters, Woolf argued that the patriarchal education system and reading practices condition (or “interpellate,” to use an Althusserian term) women to read from men’s point of view, and make them internalise the aesthetics and literary values created/ adopted by male authors and critics within the patriarchal system - wherein, these values, although male centered are assumed and promoted as universal. With her imaginary character Judith (Shakespeare’s fictional sister), she illustrated that a woman with Shakespeare’s faculties would have been denied the opportunities that Shakespeare enjoyed. In her highly influential critical A Room of Ones Own(1929), Virginial Woolf studied the cultural, economical and educational disabilities within the patriarchal system that prevent women from realising their creative potential. Analysis of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Ownīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Octo ![]()
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