MRS DALLOWAY
Feminism:
1. equality rights between women and men
2. men are the problem. Supremacy of women.
Feminism and Marxism vs. patriarchal society.
•Individual: power and women.
•Feminism and masculine are features that are mixed in an individual.
JULIA KRISTEVA
SEMIOTIC MIRROR STAGE SYMBOLIC
body
sensations
emotions
instinct
lack of language
Jacques Mind
Rules
Order
Authority
Repression
Language
Symbolic order: figure. It’s the order of the society. It has degenerated in patriarchal order.
Men have been identified with symbolic. Women are next to semiotic.
Kristeva proposes semiotic side of men has to be developed. A balance of semiotic and symbolic. Both
has to be educated in them.
The theory of androgynous mind: feminism and masculine components are in men and women.
A room of one’s own (1929)
Room means physical space.
Women need certain condition to develop.
Women writing:
•less assertive
•shorter and direct sentences.
Modernism writing is an instrument against patriarchal order. It has more semiotic.
Three Guineas (1938)
Victims: not only women, men unmaldy men, without power, victims. People who can’t develop.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
•She wanted to go to school (girls are educated at home)
•She was relatively happy until 13: her mother dies: her step-sister took the role
of mother; she also dies.
•This is the point of her depressions.
•At 39, throwing river.
•Father: ill, he was a patriarchal father, dies. His brother dies too.
•Moved to Bloomstory?
•Bloomstory group:
•Bertrand Russell
•J. M. Keynes: inspire economic decisions.
•Clive Bell
•Roger Fry
•Lyttm Strachey
•Leonard Woolf: his husband, he was a civil servant, in India, politic. He developed a
company: Hogarth Press.
