A review by zarahzoe
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
5.0
So glad I've finally gotten around to this. Just on time for international Womens day, too.
I found it easy to transfer the themes of this little book to our current day and age. It is a text on how financial stability and a safe, steady envirinment is necessary to do (creative) work. It is a text about visibility and how not being represented as creators and object of media can stand in the way of being seen as equal in society. It is a text about limited experience in real life and therefore, limited exprience to write about. It is a text about being othered. It is a text about only being displayed in relation to another group - in this case, women as wives, sisters, mothers to men. There was a moment where Woolf describes reading a passage in a book, where it is stated that two women like each other, work together, and have a relationship to each other, and the desciption of the feeling of being seen moved me to tears. Which is uncommon for older non-fiction, for me. So, even if it's not the most recent text, and most of the contents were not new to me, it still maneged to provide a lot of insight.
Fellow Womxn, the world with not be handed to us. If we want our stories told, wh have to tell them ourselfs. Men will not hand us the world. We have to take it.
I found it easy to transfer the themes of this little book to our current day and age. It is a text on how financial stability and a safe, steady envirinment is necessary to do (creative) work. It is a text about visibility and how not being represented as creators and object of media can stand in the way of being seen as equal in society. It is a text about limited experience in real life and therefore, limited exprience to write about. It is a text about being othered. It is a text about only being displayed in relation to another group - in this case, women as wives, sisters, mothers to men. There was a moment where Woolf describes reading a passage in a book, where it is stated that two women like each other, work together, and have a relationship to each other, and the desciption of the feeling of being seen moved me to tears. Which is uncommon for older non-fiction, for me. So, even if it's not the most recent text, and most of the contents were not new to me, it still maneged to provide a lot of insight.
Fellow Womxn, the world with not be handed to us. If we want our stories told, wh have to tell them ourselfs. Men will not hand us the world. We have to take it.