A Feminist Reading on A Room of One’s Own_英语论文

摘要

弗吉尼亚.伍尔夫是20世纪影响深远的英国女作家，被誉为西方女权主义的先驱。她的一生中创作了许许多多的女权主义作品，例如《妇女与小说》、《妇女的职业》、《一间自己的房间》等等。其中《一间自己的房间》更是被称为西方女性思想中七部指导性作品之一。本文从女性主义视角出发，对弗吉尼亚.伍尔夫在《一间自己的房间》里所传达出的女权主义思想进行了梳理和探讨。本论文包括三个部分，分别从三个不同的方面来谈论本论文的主题。第一部分从女性个人自由的角度出发，分析了伍尔夫通过“自己的房间”这一意象所表达的含义和女性获得个人解放的必要因素。第二部分从伍尔夫提倡经济独立的重要性出发，认为她揭露了父权社会中女性受到的不公平对待以及指明了女性为获得经济独立所需要进行的努力。第三部分描述了伍尔夫在文学史上所扮演的重要角色。她独特的女权主义意识和思想对女性文化的传承贡献巨大。

关键词：弗吉尼亚.伍尔夫 女权主义 《一间自己的屋子》

Abstract

Virginia Woolf who is regarded as the pioneer of Western feminism is an influencing female writer in the history of English literature of the 20th century. She created so many classical works, such as Women and Fiction, Professions for Women, A Room of One’s Own and so on. What’s more, her book A Room of One’s Own was regarded as one of the seven guiding works in Western feminism. This article analyzed and discussed the feminist thoughts which Virginia Woolf conveyed through the book A Room of One’s Own from the feminist perspective. This paper consists of three parts which discussed the theme of this paper from three different aspects. The first part analyzed the meaning which Virginia Woolf wanted to express with “a room of one’s own” and talked about the necessary factors to win the personal liberty for women from the perspective of woman’s individual freedom. Starting from Woolf pointing out the importance of economic independence, the second part, held a view that Woolf exposed the unfair status of women in patriarchal society and pointed out the efforts that women needed to do to achieve economic independence. The third part examined the important role Woolf played in the literary history. Her unique feminine consciousness and feminist thought have contributed greatly to the inheritance of female literature.

Key Words：Virginia Woolf; Feminism; A Room of One’s Own

Contents

1  Introduction 1

2  “A Room of One’s Own”: Individual and Spiritual Liberty 4

2.1 The Condition of Female in Individual and Spiritual Liberty in the Patriarchal Society 4

2.2 The Meaning of the “room” 5

2.3 The Ways to Achieve Individual Liberty for Female 6

3  “Five Pounds a Month”: Economic Independence 8

3.1 The Position of Female in Economy in the Patriarchal Society 8

3.2 The Influences of Economic Independence 9

3.3 The Ways to Achieve Economic Independence for Female 10

4  Female Literary Heritage 12

4.1 The Development of Feminist Literature 12

4.2 Constructing Woman’s Own Conversational Styles 13

4.3 Androgyny 14

5  Conclusion 16

Bibliography 17

Acknowledgments 18