Women and Writing

Have you any notion of how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by me? I think what Virginia Woolf was trying to do by raising these questions has to do with the relationship between women and fiction. So the author of this essay “A room of one´s own” clearly states that conditions for writing are not the same for women and men equally.

Virginia gives examples that point out the few female writers that can have an important role in social status. This arbitrary situation is explained because of the lack of space that women are to face. This limitation is seen as physically as metaphorically. Physically, this is to say, to have space where you can spend some quality time thinking, reflecting and writing uninterruptedly. Metaphorically, a room in society; where your opinion can be taken into account and valued.

I think that Virginia is seeking to highlight that knowledge has to be available for everyone, not just for men or women. That is why she provides examples that help us to visualize situations where is evidently seen this injustice. As the fact that women are not a priority in terms of education and how complicated is for women to walk in a library. All this deals with gender issues; issues that still have a shadow in our society. This type of discrimination lays on archaic wrong conceptions that we need to avoid.