scholarly journals "The blindfold test"

1970 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Sabina Versieck
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Room Of One's Own ◽  
Women’S Writing ◽  
The Way

Is there a recognisable gender difference in the way men and women write?Is it possible to tell an author's gender from his or her prose? Or as E.M.Forster puts it: when you are reading a book can you teil instinctively whetherit is the work of a man or a woman? Virginia Woolf is concerned with thesequestions in (a.o.) A Room of One's Own; E.M. Forster writes about them inThe Feminine Note in Literature. Both Woolf's views and those of E.M.Forster on the difference between men's writing and women's writing and onsexual difference in general are examined and compared and put in a broadercontext.

An Office of Her Own? Alice Munro and the Legacy of Writing with In-Authority

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Mendez
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
Room Of One's Own ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Women’S Writing

In Alice Munro’s short story “The Office,” the protagonist claims an office of her own in which to write. Munro’s narrative can thus be read as engaging with the ideas on the spatial conditions for women’s writing which Virginia Woolf famously explored in A Room of One’s Own. My paper takes this thematic connection as a point of departure for suggesting that a Woolfian legacy shapes Munro’s “The Office” in ways which go beyond a shared interest in spaces for women’s writing. Both A Room of One’s Own and “The Office,” this paper argues, use the discussion of women’s writing spaces as a launching pad for exploring in how far women writers may claim for themselves traditionally masculine positions of authorship and authority, and in what ways authoritative forms of literary discourse may be transformed by women’s writing. In both A Room of One’s Own and “The Office,” the interruption as element of plot and rhetorical strategy plays a central role in answering these questions.

scholarly journals Écriture Feminine in the Narration Level of Jeanette Winterson’s The Powerbook

TEKNOSASTIK ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Nisa’ul Fithri Mardani Shihab
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Jeanette Winterson ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ecriture Feminine ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Women’S Writing ◽  
The Way

This writing examines the narration level in Jeanette Winterson’s novel The Powerbook (2000) by focusing on the concept of écriture feminine, referring to the structure and the form of narration. Jeanette Winterson is one of woman writers in English literature whose works indicate a form of écriture feminine as a counter discourse for phallogocentrism. Winterson’s works in the narration level exhibit the difference from the conventional narration forms. In The Powerbook, écriture feminine in the narration level is shown in the form of fragmented narration that comes in three different forms, namely: narcissistic narrative, public narration and demythologizing history. The result of the research points out that the narration form of the novel is a resistance toward phallogocentrism by demonstrating women’s writing that manifests the way women make sense of their world.

Dialogues between South America and Europe: Victoria Ocampo Channels Virginia Woolf

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Cristina Carluccio
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
South America ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Interpersonal Distance ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Victoria Ocampo ◽  
Room Of One's Own ◽  
Women’S Writing

This chapter discusses Virginia Woolf and Victoria Ocampo’s exchanges within a modernist transnational framework shaped by alternative forms of female writing and dissemination. Rather than focusing on any cultural asymmetry between the English writer Woolf and the Argentinian author Ocampo, the analysis highlights the two women’s similar concerns and ideals regarding the female universe, and more specifically women writers. Their shared outlook constituted a powerful empathetic catalyst that allowed them to surpass any cultural and interpersonal distance and thus to satisfy their intellectual hunger. The presence of loans and inheritances – both imaginary and real – in Woolf and Ocampo’s interaction is analysed partly in the light of the global novel and located on a borderless spectrum of women’s writing. More specifically, Ocampo’s inter-textual dialogues with Woolf – such as those in her ‘Carta a Virginia Woolf’ (1934), which includes references to A Room of One’s Own (1929) – are read as a typically female form of dissemination, partly aimed at interrupting an otherwise male monologue. The two women’s face-to-face encounters – and recollections of them – are also pondered. Special attention is paid to their first meeting, when Woolf and Ocampo sealed a female intellectual pact against fascism as an overt manifestation of male tyranny.

Cruel Consciousness

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-114
Author(s):  
Jeanette Samyn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural World ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Human Ethics ◽  
Ecological Thought ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Way

Jeanette Samyn, “Cruel Consciousness: Louis Figuier, John Ruskin, and the Value of Insects” (pp. 89–114) This essay examines two opposing theories of consciousness and value in relation to nineteenth century entomology. In The Insect World (1868), the French popularizer of science Louis Figuier extends consciousness to aesthetically unappealing and seemingly cruel insects such as parasites by attributing to them sociality and industry. With little recourse to theological or conventional moral standards, Figuier ascribes value to parasites—on account of their consciousness, which aligns their experience with human sentience, and also because of their role as environmental mediators. In this view, he subtly paves the way for a biocentric approach to the natural world that remains controversial today. John Ruskin, meanwhile, brings up popular entomology (epitomized, he says, by Figuier’s text) as a complicated counter to his own views on labor and aesthetics in his letters to the working men and women of England, Fors Clavigera (1871–84). Questioning the contemporary “instinct” for the study of parasites—and despite recent associations of Ruskin with ecological thought—Ruskin takes pains in these letters to uphold the difference between human and nonhuman life. In his efforts to limit consciousness to the most valuable and difficult of human labors, however, he engages seriously with the implications of proto-parasitological thought for human ethics.

‘Les hommes et les femmes, c’est vraiment pas pareil’ (‘Men and women just aren’t the same’)

Making Waves ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 171-182
Author(s):  
Diana Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Biographical Sketch ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
Constructivist Model ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Materialist Feminist ◽  
French Feminism

Annie Leclerc’s writing, most famously the iconic 1974 text Parole de femme, speaks with lyricism and humour for the différencialiste (difference) current of French women’s writing – the current that has been widely identified outside France with ‘French Feminism’. At the time of its initial publication, the book created intense controversy within the French feminist movement: it was the object of a searing critique by materialist feminist Christine Delphy in the pages of Les Temps modernes, and led to Leclerc’s expulsion from the circle around Simone de Beauvoir.When Leclerc died in 2006, her friend and fellow author Nancy Huston wrote an essay on her work, Passions d’Annie Leclerc (2007), that is at once a tribute, a biographical sketch and a meditation on female friendship. The two writers, of slightly different generations (Leclerc b. 1940, Huston 1953) shared a feminism committed– sometimes disturbingly –to the notion of gender difference and hence to some degree sceptical of the Beauvoirian, constructivist model. Analysing Leclerc’s influential text through the lens of Huston’s contemporary essay, this chapterdiscusses the ‘difference’ strand in French feminism, in the 1970s and now, and its relationship to the innovatively hybrid form of Huston’s memorial essay.

The Politics of New African Marriage in Segregationist South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan Healy-Clancy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Women’S Writing

Abstract:For the mission-educated men and women known as “New Africans” in segregationist South Africa, the pleasures and challenges of courtship and marriage were not only experienced privately. New Africans also broadcast marital narratives as political discourses of race-making and nation-building. Through close readings of neglected press sources and memoirs, this article examines this political interpolation of private life in public culture. Women’s writing about the politics of marriage provides a lens onto theorizations of their personal and political ideals in the 1930s and 1940s, a period in which the role of women in nationalist public culture has generally been dismissed as marginal by scholars.

Capillary supply of the tibialis anterior muscle in young, healthy, and moderately active men and women

2002 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 1451-1457 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Porter ◽  
S. Stuart ◽  
M. Boij ◽  
J. Lexell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gender Difference ◽  
Tibialis Anterior ◽  
Fiber Type ◽  
Tibialis Anterior Muscle ◽  
Type I ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Fiber Size ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Muscle Biopsies

Tibialis anterior muscle biopsies from moderately active men and women (21–30 yr; n= 30) were examined to determine potential gender differences in capillarization. The fiber type proportions [type I (T1) ∼73%] were unaffected by gender. The men (M) had significantly ( P < 0.001) larger fibers than the women (W), with a greater gender effect for type II (T2) fibers ( P < 0.001). The M and W had similar capillary densities (CD ∼390 capillaries/mm2), but the capillaries-to-fiber ratio (C/F) was higher in the M (M = 2.20 ± 0.35, W = 1.66 ± 0.32; P < 0.01). Capillary contacts (CC) were higher in T2 than T1 for the M ( P < 0.01), but not W, and M had greater CC ( P < 0.001). Both fiber area per capillary (FA/C) and fiber perimeter per capillary (FP/C) indicated that T1 fibers had greater capillarization than T2 fibers ( P < 0.001). There were no gender differences in T1 FA/C and T2 FA/C or T1 FP/C, but a gender difference existed for T2 FP/C (M = 60.5 ± 10.9, W = 70.6 ± 13.4; P < 0.01). The gender difference for C/F could be explained by fiber size; however, the physiological implications of the difference in T2 FP/C remains to be determined. In conclusion, despite gender differences for fiber size, overall, capillarization was similar between the men and women.

Hope

2015 ◽  
pp. 131-165
Author(s):  
Shulamit S. Magnus
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Modern Time ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Dark Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
First Time ◽  
Women’S Writing

This chapter details how another youth arose during the era of the pogroms. Not the youth of some bygone, pre-modern time to which Pauline Wengeroff supposedly harked back but an ‘enlightened’ youth who nonetheless, in her words, had not gone ‘astray to the alien in that dark time’. Among them were many who found their way back to the Jewish people and who, under the influence of recent events, closed ranks. Indeed, as a reaction to antisemitism, ‘the Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) society arose’. It is to this youth that Wengeroff says she relates — for the first time — the ‘dreadful event’ of her sons' conversion, something she had not previously shared even with her intimates. These are Wengeroff's grandchildren, for whom Memoirs of a Grandmother is written. It is clear from Memoirs, that Wengeroff was a Zionist. One effectively sees in her work the emergence of full-fledged political Zionism from traditional proto-Zionism. The chapter then assesses how Wengeroff was able to write and publish Memoirs. What made the difference for Wengeroff, who must be counted a stunning success story in the history of Jewish women's writing, and of Jewish literature altogether? The chapter also looks at how her memoirs were received by her metaphorical grandchildren.

Liberty and Feminism in Early Modern Women’s Writing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Detlefsen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Margaret Cavendish ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Mary Astell ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Women’S Writing

This chapter shows how Mary Astell and Margaret Cavendish can reasonably be understood as early feminists in three senses of the term. First, they are committed to the natural equality of men and women, and, relatedly, they are committed to equal opportunity of education for men and women. Second, they are committed to social structures that help women develop authentic selves and thus autonomy understood in one sense of the word. Third, they acknowledge the power of production relationships, especially friendships among women, in cultivating fulfilling lives for women. All three forms of feminism promote greater liberty for women. Moreover, the chapter establishes that many of these conclusions are especially forceful given Cavendish’s use of the genre of literature, and given the method that literature allows, namely that of presenting alternate points of view.

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