Teaching Virginia Woolf in Sin City: Vegas Entertainers and a New Feminist Heritage

Author(s):  
Kaylee Baucom

Feminist discourse is evolving and a new wave of feminist consciousness is appearing in the media, in political debates, and in the classroom. I teach literature at a community college in Las Vegas, where the students are similar to the “common readers” of Woolf’s Morley College in their desire to educate themselves, in their educational preparedness, and in their socioeconomic circumstances. Many of my students work as entertainers on The Strip and throughout my four years of teaching in Sin City, I have observed that my female students who work in the sex entertainment industry take a special interest in Woolf’s work. These students connect their concerns about female independence, sexual assault, pay inequality, and body-shaming, with Woolf’s feminist writings. Many of these women strongly identify with Woolf’s declarations of independence in A Room of One’s Own, as well as some of her most radical philosophies, such as her proclamation in Three Guineas that, “to sell a brain is worse than to sell a body.” Woolf speaks to and for these women in unique ways, and their responses to her work reflect a new, fourth wave feminist awareness. This study considers emerging, fourth wave feminist readings of Woolf both in theory and in practice. I wish to share the unique experience of teaching Woolf’s work to college students who identify as sex-entertainment workers, and highlight ways that these contemporary women are using Woolf’s work to create a new feminist heritage.

2020 ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Natalia Colorado Prieto

En este artículo se lleva a cabo un análisis comparativo de las traducciones al español de los ensayos feministas A Room of One’s Own y Three Guineas de Virginia Woolf, así como un estudio de la correlación entre las ideas feministas de Woolf y la situación de las mujeres españolas en el momento en el que las traducciones fueron publicadas y en la actualidad. El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar hasta qué punto las decisiones de los traductores influyeron en la transmisión del mensaje que pretendía transmitir Woolf, y la conexión entre dichas traducciones y la situación de las mujeres en España en el momento que fueron publicadas. El enfoque de la traducción de Newmark (1988) y Holmes (1988), junto con la teoría de la traducción feminista, forman el marco teórico. Los resultados de este estudio demuestran la relevancia de las ideas feministas de Woolf y el papel esencial de la traducción en la construcción de una genealogía femenina.


Author(s):  
Susan Sellers

This chapter traces Virginia Woolf’s development as a writer of non-fiction, focusing on her prolific output as an essayist. It sees close links between her ongoing experimentation with the novel form and the evolving form of her essays, and argues that her alterations in style were an integral aspect of her attempt to articulate a response to her largely Victorian inheritance, to the seismic shifts taking place in society and understanding in the early decades of the twentieth century, and to the politics and culture of the 1930s dominated by the rise of fascism. While the chapter ranges across all of Woolf’s essays, there is particular discussion of her 1920 A Room of One’s Own and her 1938 Three Guineas.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Maria Aparecida de Oliveira

O presente artigo estabelece as relações entre a A room of one’s own e a crítica feminista, observando como essa tem revisto e ressignificado o ensaio de Virginia Woolf. Serão problematizadas questões como a exclusão feminina dos espaços públicos, das esferas políticas e, consequentemente, da literatura e da história. Depois disso, abordaremos a personagem Judith Shakespeare.  Por último, duas questões problematizadas serão tratadas nesta análise, a primeira refere-se à tradição literária feminina e a segunda refere-se à própria frase feminina. Palavras-chave: Crítica feminista, Judith Shakespeare, tradição literária feminina. Referências AUERBACH, E. Brown Stocking. In: ______. Mimesis: a representação da realidade na literatura ocidental. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1971. BARRETT, M. Introduction. In: WOOLF, V. A room of one’s own and Three guineas. Introd. Michèle Barrett. London: Penguin, 1993. ______ (ed.). Women and writing. London: The Women’s Press, 1979. BOWLBY, R. Feminist destinations and further essays on Virginia Woolf. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University, 1997. ______. Walking, women and writing: Virginia Woolf as flâneuse. In: ARMSTRONG, I. (ed.). New Feminist discourses: critical essays on theories and texts. London: Routledge, 1992. CAUGHIE, P. L. Virginia Woolf & postmodernism literature in quest and question of itself. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1991. COELHO, N. N. Dicionário crítico de escritoras brasileiras. São Paulo: Escrituras, 2002. ______. A literatura feminina no Brasil contemporâneo. São Paulo: Siciliano, 1993. GILBERT, S. Woman’s Sentence. Man’s Sentencing: Linguistic Fantasies in Woolf and Joyce. In: MARCUS, J. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury: A Centenary. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987. GILBERT, S.; GILBERT, S. Shakespeare’s sisters: feminist essays on women poets. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1979. ______. The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer in the nineteenth-century literary imagination. New Haven: Yale University, 2000. ______. The war of words. vol.1 of No man’s land: the place of the woman writer in the twentieth century. New Haven: Yale University, 1988. HUSSEY, M. Virginia Woolf: A to Z. New York: Oxford University, 1995. JONES, S. Writing the woman artist: essays on poetics, politics, and portraiture. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, 1991. MARCUS, J. Art and anger: reading like a woman. Columbus: Ohio State University, 1988. ______. Virginia Woolf and the languages of the patriarchy. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1987a. MINOW-PINKNEY, M. Virginia Woolf and the problem of the subject: feminine writing in the major novels. New Brunswick: Rutgers University, 2010. MOERS, E. Literary women: the great writers. New York: Doubleday, 1976. MUZART, Z. L. Escritoras brasileiras do século XIX. Florianópolis: Mulheres, 2005. OLSEN, T. Silences. New York: Seymour Lawrence, 1978. RICH, A. Of woman born: motherhood as experience and institution. New York: W W. Norton, 1995. ROSENBAUM, S.P. Women and fiction: the manuscript versions of A room of one’s own. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. SHOWALTER, E. Feminist criticism in the wilderness. In: GILBERT, S.; GUBAR, S. Feminist literary theory and criticism. New York; London: W. W. Norton, 2007. SNAITH, A. Introduction. In: WOOLF, V. A room of one’s own and Three guineas. Oxford: Oxford University, 2015. STETZ, M. D. Anita Brookner: Woman writer as reluctant feminist. In: ______. Writing the woman artist: essays on poetics, politics and portraiture. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, 1991. WALKER, A. In search of our mother’s gardens. In: ______. In search of our mother’s gardens: womanist prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. WOOLF, V. A room of one’s own and Three guineas. Introd. Anna Snaith. Oxford: Oxford University, 2015. WOOLF, V. A room of one’s own and Three guineas. Introd. Michèle Barrett. London: Penguin, 1993.


Author(s):  
Fatemeh Sadat Basirizadeh ◽  
Mahnaz Soqandi

Looking backwards at a century of capricious discourses, now after another turn of the century, one easily comes to the common point in all Feministic discourses; which all are as efforts to prove women's presence and their equality to men in various aspects of life. The passage of the decades did not mutate the nature of all these feminine studies; just have posed the topic in diverse areas; for the whole body of the Feminist dialogisms and ideas were appointed by patriarchal discourses. This indicates that the current feminist dialogisms are not totally feminine discourses, rather, feminine-masculine ones formed out of men's mischievousness saving their patriarchal authority which changes the discourses to a masculine/feminine relation. However, what nowadays Feminism, as a school of thought, needs is a feminine intuition, that is a moment of feminine epiphany, by which not only women will be able to reach a new understanding of femininity but men also will recognize the essence/existence of females. Discussing Virginia Woolf’s dialogism in ‘A Room of One’s Own’ and two novels by Zoya Pirzad (Persian narratives of a highly male dominated society) the study concludes that Feminism needs an intuitive feminine epiphany; an epiphany that both sexes should come to in a society, to enable the school of feminism to come to a purely feminine dialogics and be released from all the mischievous feminine-masculine discourses.


1969 ◽  
Vol 21 (01) ◽  
pp. 001-011 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Onoyama ◽  
K Tanaka

SummaryThe tissue fibrinolysis was studied in 550 specimens of 7 kinds of arteries from 80 fresh cadavers, using Astrup’s biochemical method and Todd’s histochemical method with human fibrinogen.In the microscopically normal aortic wall, almost all specimens had the fibrinolytic activity which was the strongest in the adventitia and the weakest in the media.The fibrinolytic activity seemed to be localized in the endothelium.The stronger activity lay in the adventitia of the aorta and the pulmonary artery and all layers of the cerebral artery.The activity of the intima and media of the macroscopically normal areas seemed to be stronger in the internal carotid artery than in the common carotid artery.Mean fibrinolytic activity of the macroscopically normal areas seemed to decrease with age in the intima and the media of the thoracic aorta and seemed to be low in the cases with a high atherosclerotic index.The fibrinolytic activities of all three layers of the fibrous thickened aorta seemed to decrease, and those of the media and the adventitia of the atheromatous plaque to increase.The fibrinolytic activity of the arterial wall might play some role in the progress of atherosclerosis.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 907-912
Author(s):  
Deepika Masurkar ◽  
Priyanka Jaiswal

Recently at the end of 2019, a new disease was found in Wuhan, China. This disease was diagnosed to be caused by a new type of coronavirus and affected almost the whole world. Chinese researchers named this novel virus as 2019-nCov or Wuhan-coronavirus. However, to avoid misunderstanding the World Health Organization noises it as COVID-19 virus when interacting with the media COVID-19 is new globally as well as in India. This has disturbed peoples mind. There are various rumours about the coronavirus in Indian society which causes panic in peoples mind. It is the need of society to know myths and facts about coronavirus to reduce the panic and take the proper precautionary actions for our safety against the coronavirus. Thus this article aims to bust myths and present the facts to the common people. We need to verify myths spreading through social media and keep our self-ready with facts so that we can protect our self in a better way. People must prevent COVID 19 at a personal level. Appropriate action in individual communities and countries can benefit the entire world.


2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110055
Author(s):  
Marçal Sintes-Olivella ◽  
Pere Franch ◽  
Elena Yeste-Piquer ◽  
Klaus Zilles

What is the opinion held by the European press on the U.S. election campaign and the candidates running for president? What are the predominant issues that attract the attention of European print media? Does Europe detest Donald Trump? The objective of the present study is to analyze the perception European commentators had of the 2020 race for the White House. The media, the audience, and European governments were captivated more than ever before by how the U.S. election campaign unfolded, fixing their gaze on the contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Through a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology, a combination of content analysis and the application of framing theory (hitherto scarcely applied to opinion pieces), our research centers on exploring the views, opinions, and analyses published in eight leading newspapers from four European countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom) as expressed in their editorials and opinion articles. This study observes how the televised presidential debates were commented on, interpreted, and assessed by commentators from the eight newspapers we selected. The goal was to identify the common issues and frames that affected European public opinion on the U.S. presidential campaign and the aspirants to the White House.


Author(s):  
Angela de Castro Gomes

The first decades of the 21st century brought back to the international arena a family of terms well known in Latin America to designate both styles of politics and the leaders who embodied them: populism and populists. Brazil is seen as a paradigmatic example of this type of experience, called “classic populism,” for two periods of its history, corresponding to its process of transition from a “traditional” society to a “modern” economy and society. The first period ran from the 1930 revolution until 1945, with the fall of the Estado Novo and the removal of its “leader,” Getúlio Vargas. The latter period covered the 1950s, “the golden years of populism,” since, despite the socioeconomic development achieved, democracy did not manage to establish itself in the country. The populist interpretation of this period of Brazilian history was formulated and shared by academia, essentially after the 1964 coup, and was dominant in the 1960s and 1970s. However, it extended these frontiers, using the language of the media, political conflicts, and the common sense of Brazilians. Widely used, the concepts of populism and populist were conflated with the events and characters they name, only being critiqued in the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, the number of scholars seeking other references has grown, whether redrafting the meanings of the original proposal, the case of the “populist political system,” or abandoning it completely, in the example of the “trabalhista pact.” In this dense debate, one constant can be observed: in Brazil populism became a “category of accusation,” translating negative values present in the “other” to whom one is referring. Although many academic studies do not use this pejorative tone, it is so consolidated in Brazilian politics that it has become part of the political culture of parties and trade unions, circulating widely.


2020 ◽  
Vol 128 (5) ◽  
pp. 627
Author(s):  
О.Н. Гапоненко

The questions regarding the measurements of the integral characteristics of the scattering function for the media with the strong forward scattering are considered. It is shown that in the common case the contribution of the small angles in the average scattering cosine is underestimated, whereas this contribution is important for the dominant forward scattering. The method that allows to obtain the necessary corrections for such case is proposed.


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