the_reading_wren's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Classism
Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Ableism, and Alcohol
Minor: Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexual violence
kaylaswhitmore's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Misogyny
Minor: Classism
Class and poverty is central to this essay, but I don’t personally think it is degrading or disrespectful towards any demographic. Additionally, please know that the f-slur is used once in the context of a cigarette, in case that throws any readers off.eb00kie's review against another edition
5.0
This style of expression is overwhelming at times. The narrator follows the each resulting thought and the resulting thoughts it sets off, like an electrical impulse to and fro, across the nervous system. Alas, the theme of this essay is ostensibly "women and fiction". Retrospectively it seems nearly dishonest to disregard any of the ramnifications of Mary Seton's brownian thoughts and conclusions as uneccessary to the purpose of the essay, if truthfully we wish to pursue its theme.
Such a general and all-encompassing theme, one can treat it with objectivity only at the end of a lifetime, if then. Is it not then more honest in practice to approach it fully subjectively and not go one step further? Where are women and fiction? Inside, outside, at the library, on the street, the fictions we grow into, the ones we create, the ones we have created, the ones created about us, beliefs, reasons - Mary Seton takes each of them into consideration.
Minor: Misogyny
michaelion's review against another edition
2.5
Virginia Woolf said nonbinary lesbian rights also Ginny girlie you would've loved Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey.
Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism
Moderate: Classism and Racial slurs
Minor: Ableism
I don't like the phrase "fall on deaf ears" like deaf people can't help being deaf. They're not ignoring you on purpose. That's what I tagged ableism.bethantg's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny
remuslibrary's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Misogyny
lectricefeministe's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Sexism, Classism, Gaslighting, and Misogyny
kers_tin's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Racism, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Classism, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts
blueberry0531's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Misogyny, Classism, and Sexism
Moderate: Racism and Homophobia
diana_raquel's review against another edition
4.0
I always have a somewhat complicated relationship with Vírgínia Woolf. Her style, stream of consciousness, is a literary style that I struggle with. But I was really surprised when I actually could read this book the first time I tried it (Mrs Dalloway took me three times). And I really liked it!
It is supposed to be a book about women writing fiction, but it goes much further. It talks about the role of women in fiction and in society. It isn't a book about feminism, but it is a feminist book, that I strongly recommend. It's one of those books that I think everyone should read at least one time.
Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism
Moderate: Racial slurs, Homophobia, Classism, Racism, Suicide, and Ableism