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ladycallandra's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
alguienmescucha's review against another edition
5.0
Básicamente pasé todo el tiempo que leí Un Cuarto Propio de PIE aplaudiendo. Virginia Woolf no sólo es adelantada para su época, es completamente actual. Todo lo que cuenta, sus motivaciones, sus razones, cómo explica cada cosa. Puede seguir usándose hoy en día.
Da un poco de tristeza ver que, dadas las circunstancias, siento que la sociedad no avanzó lo suficiente. Que en ciertos ámbitos y países las mujeres tienen que seguir luchando por su espacio y sus derechos fundamentales.
Actual, irreverente, me encantó este ensayo. Y apenas lo terminé, decidí avanzar con lo que se considera su secuela...
Da un poco de tristeza ver que, dadas las circunstancias, siento que la sociedad no avanzó lo suficiente. Que en ciertos ámbitos y países las mujeres tienen que seguir luchando por su espacio y sus derechos fundamentales.
Actual, irreverente, me encantó este ensayo. Y apenas lo terminé, decidí avanzar con lo que se considera su secuela...
khornstein1's review against another edition
4.0
OK, so I was going to give Virginia several stars off because this lecture/essay is meandering, classist, and sounds dated. And then I read what she wrote about interruptions. Yes, she totally gets it. As a woman, I can affirm that if you are female you will constantly be interrupted in whatever you are doing--unless you are truly financially independent and can hide out somewhere. The dog, the dishes, the children, the taxes, getting your eyebrows waxed...I could go on and on. It's amazing women have written anything.
placuszekzmango's review against another edition
5.0
„Dlatego chcę Wam prosić, abyście pisały książki najrozmaitsze, nie cofając się przed żadnym tematem, od najbardziej banalnych po najambitniejsze. Starające się skąd się tylko da, zdobyć pieniądze, które pozwolą Wam podróżować i próżnować, rozmyślać o przeszłości i przyszłości świata, czytać książki i snuć marzenia, wałęsać się, przystawać na rogach ulic -zapuszczając się przez cały czas wędkę myśli w najgłębszy nurt życia.”
Bo każda kobieta powinna mieć własny pokój i 500 funtów rocznej pensji, aby móc pisać i marzyć.
Bo każda kobieta powinna mieć własny pokój i 500 funtów rocznej pensji, aby móc pisać i marzyć.
midici's review against another edition
4.0
The crux of Virginia Woolf’s essay about women and fiction is that in order to truly create and write, the way men have for centuries, is to gain the financial independence and space that men have enjoyed. This is obviously a dated essay but so much of it still resonates.
She begins far back in history and then slowly moves forward, first looking at how men wrote and described women, then moving into how women now write about themselves. She spends time giving credit to several other women authors while she does so.
“She had to work on equal terms with men. She made, by working very hard, enough to live on. The importance of that fact outweighs anything that she actually wrote… for here begins the freedom of the mind, or rather the possibility that in the course of time the mind will be free to write what it likes… all women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn… for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”
When Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own it was only 9 years after (*some) women gained the right to vote, so her essay explores the sort of negative and positive reactions around the growing changes of women’s position in society as they gained new rights.
She spends some time delving into how different values were prized by different sexes, with male values being ‘important’ and women values being ‘frivolous’. Woolf discusses woman writing about enjoying other women; the complexity of women’s relationships with each other, as seen by women, not as simple and one-dimensional. Previously women were only seen in relation to men, partially due to the fact that relationships with men were all they were supposed to have: not careers, or education, or triumphs, etc.
Men’s insistence on women’s inferiority was a reflection of their own fear – if they were not better than woman, they would have nothing. The excessive anger of men at the suffragette movement was because they simply weren’t used to being challenged: “He… does it on purpose. He does it in protest. He is protesting against the equality of the other sex by asserting his own superiority.”
Woolf does not end by putting down men or upholding women, but with a chapter on why, in her opinion, the best works were a representation of both men and women working together, as equals. She is hopeful that even as so much has changed, it will continue changing towards a more balanced society.
“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourself of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books or loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.”
She begins far back in history and then slowly moves forward, first looking at how men wrote and described women, then moving into how women now write about themselves. She spends time giving credit to several other women authors while she does so.
“She had to work on equal terms with men. She made, by working very hard, enough to live on. The importance of that fact outweighs anything that she actually wrote… for here begins the freedom of the mind, or rather the possibility that in the course of time the mind will be free to write what it likes… all women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn… for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”
When Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own it was only 9 years after (*some) women gained the right to vote, so her essay explores the sort of negative and positive reactions around the growing changes of women’s position in society as they gained new rights.
She spends some time delving into how different values were prized by different sexes, with male values being ‘important’ and women values being ‘frivolous’. Woolf discusses woman writing about enjoying other women; the complexity of women’s relationships with each other, as seen by women, not as simple and one-dimensional. Previously women were only seen in relation to men, partially due to the fact that relationships with men were all they were supposed to have: not careers, or education, or triumphs, etc.
Men’s insistence on women’s inferiority was a reflection of their own fear – if they were not better than woman, they would have nothing. The excessive anger of men at the suffragette movement was because they simply weren’t used to being challenged: “He… does it on purpose. He does it in protest. He is protesting against the equality of the other sex by asserting his own superiority.”
Woolf does not end by putting down men or upholding women, but with a chapter on why, in her opinion, the best works were a representation of both men and women working together, as equals. She is hopeful that even as so much has changed, it will continue changing towards a more balanced society.
“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourself of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books or loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.”
michaelashsmith's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.25
k_shanahan's review against another edition
4.0
My first ever Virginia Woolf...
4 stars because I cannot yet make up my mind about how I feel regarding her and her views. I can't decide if she's sarcastic, hypocritical or just blunt and for lack of a better term 'woke'. Excited to read more for my University module this year.
4 stars because I cannot yet make up my mind about how I feel regarding her and her views. I can't decide if she's sarcastic, hypocritical or just blunt and for lack of a better term 'woke'. Excited to read more for my University module this year.