Feminism Viewed From Virginia Woolf's A Room Of One's Own

This thesis tries to discuss Virginia Woolf's (1882-1941) feminism thought.Virginia Woolf was born in a rich family with medium or high income and received good family education. However, she provoked a strong sense of feminism in just such a good cultural environment, which was due to her suffering a lot from her father's hot-temper, arbitrariness and rudeness, her brother's sexual harassment and all kinds of unequal treatment came to her just because she was a woman.Woolf made great effort to advocate feminism and therefore wrote A Room of One's Own expressing her opinions. The passage discusses in six chapters the inferior statues of women in European civilization from ancient to contemporary times. She thought that the inequality and discrimination against women is disappearing gradually nowadays, but men still hold tightly discrimination against women. Therefore, she raised a series of ways to constitute women's writing traditions and patterns, that is, women should realize that they have been alienated, that they should have their own material and spiritual space, that they should use their own ways of speech to write, and that they should constitute jointly the theory of"androgyny".Woolf's feminism has profound concepts and inspiration, and her ideas fully show the importance of feminism in the history of cultural development, influencing a large amount of contemporary feminist writers and critics in the world and China. As a result, Woolf has become the forerunner of western feminism.