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    What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?

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Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin Reading Tele oh Fiske an ohn Harey The Semiotics of Theatre and roma Kei Elm Seal Teual Polite: Feminist herr Teor orl Moi ‘Stucturalim ond Semioties Terence Hawkes ‘Studhing Bish Culture An noc ed. Susan Basset Subcuhure! The Meaning of She Dick Hebsige Teling Stores A Theta! Analysis of Nara Fon Steven Cohan and Linda M. Shires Trorltion Studies Susan Gasereft Sexual/Textual Politics Feminist Literary Theory ‘and Edition 9 “ay bt anenincnn 1) Routledge R fowedee, | i INTRODUCTION Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Feminist readings of Woolf (na bi survey dhe newer othe quson pote in thee ofthis chaper would soem to be: que afew feminist etc I is noe of Sours surpesing ta ay acts hie found Wools aioe bern snd neghge oombary see, bute econ of his get fenunet rer by 20 many of ber Anglo-American feminist opis requis fre expanuton A dsnguised feminist ee Ube Hie Showalter for example, inal her mtle werr wy fom Wool by taking ovr yr changing, Wool’ ie. Under Showaer’s pee fos Om Becomes A Lita ef Tet Ove fsb wed 1 indies her proliemase dsunce from te cadivon of women ‘ters he lovingly neon er Book. a thichper wilfrenmine some gate feminist reeponerto Woo exemplified parsculry inEuneShowalrslong los agued haps om Woof a Lie of Te Own. The Til nde ome print towards diferent, more pose feminist reading of Wool before ily suraing up the salen erues ofthe ein response to Wool’ wetnge The poit of dhs exercse wl be to ituminae the relonship beeen feminist cial readings and the often ‘eons theoreti and plc asumpon tht inform tbe THE REJECTION OF WOOLF Eine Showaies devotes mat ofr chapter an Wo oa survey of ‘Wools bogrphy and cussion ofA Ra of On Ova The of Ie caper," Wool nd the Bg nto androgyy' sind tive of er weaunent of Wolf's xs Sheets ou 0 poe that fo ‘Woo dhe concep of anrogyay, which Showa defies il bl _nceand command ofan eons ange that ines make and Female tlements (263) we yh ht belped er evade contention ath her own pfu emalenes sod enabled ert choke an rpres er anger and niin’ (264), Foe Showa, Wool’ estes snags Femi tht ‘even in the moment of expressing feminist cond ‘WoolFrantedto waacond st Hersh for experince war eal swish to foge experince’ (282), Showalter sees Wools nee om the sedroynous mature ofhe preset ara ightawsy fom wowed femunin (282) and locas te omen of ts ight in ho, Tn opening ber denne of thir ean Showa dams ‘what i mor skin aout the bok tral and srucuraly ite tenis car, ples, te comers ure, The ‘any whch shew wring he arn te: epetion, agg son, puoi. whimsy and mate vewpit. Orth ober and ‘espe te bstons of spartan and itm, Rao of One's Ou isanesremey impersonal and ase bose (eta Showalter gies the imprsion here tht Woal's we of "eptiton, xaggeaton, prod. whimsy, and mulple ewpat in Ra 0 tributes only fo ering an impression of ‘sbenuoar charm’ and Therefore somehow dsnace atenon from the mege Wool sean to convey inthe ey. She goes om 0 object the impean iy of fom, an impesonlry tht springs fom the fit tat ‘Woal"s we of many diferent penonie to ice the narave ee “ames fame sels in fegueyrsurng shi and change of sujet posidon, Teng the ete to singe ued poston but mulcplcty of prsptives to gappe wth, rermore, Woolf rfires to reveal ber ‘vexprenc uly aod cleat, bution degsing or prodying iincbe ert obliging Showa tov ot for ve tat ena realy iNew College tha Orig’ real Cambridge ands on ‘The stay sing, mle especies bul up by these ech sigue evident expert howl who cad by deling it The forte Book i teasing, sy, ease i hs way Wool pls wi her dence, refiing wo be emily seriou, denying sy east 0 Terie intention (284). For Showa, he only way femin an ‘eu the book pope is by remsining‘Seached fom x nerve Stele’ (285); and she anges odo, he wl oe tat a is {nn way parry Bberating tex an can ee A Room of Ones Ou 36 document in the ray iso offre sete, andvemain detached ory rave segs, the concep of ans anda pate ror ae ete: {bering nro obvour a hy Bist pp Thy have «der {ide thatthe phere othe el andthe emo, sy) For Showalter Wools weting continually escapes the crt's perspec tre, awape efirng tobe pioned down to one ug angle of iio This client then Ierpretd a+ denial of athens Feminist sates of mind, mel the ‘angry and dented ons (287), {nd ae commlanen othe Sloonnbury el ofthe epraon of polls and ar (288) Thi sprain cident, Showalter dais, the fier dat Wool "oided desabing her own experience’ (294) lnc dis avoidance mates i impale for Wool to produce rely femited feminist work, Showalter natal concer that Thee Chas ella fn fl a eit eye, My own view eta reining detached fom the surat at gies of on i eguivalea ono edi iat land ht Showalter inpaence wit the esi motte ach more by formal and Srl sae han by the das he exalts ee content Bt ‘ter to argue thi pont more thoroughly te necesry so ake lore look a he thon sstmpons abot he etonsip ‘ero tse and plies ta in be decd in Showa hoa homework nee made ep in A owed Ts Om ro wht we ewe wees wl be tsoaet tue Bt sb blest» ee ould eet he ster experienc ad the hemor sibeateh experne ak tobe by the rae the tee vale he ext Woo ey flo sy de experne wo he ender scndng wo Showa, Igy betes so Uppers wean Wolf ied ne eesy rule esperece oly 3 god fant wre Ts cee pry een nT han Showa pus re Woo? was betrayed by har owe itn fom fea rin stream, Many people mere insted bythe css ssurpon inthe bro, 2s wal 5 by 1s poli nave. More prfeuny, hawever, Woolf as cto fom an undertaning othe dysoday e of e woman whom she sed o inspire: chr herbed ist aspects fale eparane tt she had reer perry nun and seed dese her own experience esa) Se Showaer quotes Q 2. Leni’s ‘ru accurate Sey reve wth spproral nce ‘Lewis added herelf eo the ution of female ‘experience making i cer tat rots her pin of em, Wool Ene ‘dn ie about (299), Showalter thos imply defines flscive Feminist wring as work Sar elles & power expression of personal experence i sca framework Accrdng otis defaition, Woes exay can't be ery polit eller showalte’s poston on this pot In fc sony fSroure he form of wring commonly known etal or bourgeois realm, preduding ay rel recogadon of the vie of Virgina ‘ial's modernism. snot concdene tithe oa sor ieay ‘theoretic Showalter alludes oa he chapter on Wool ith Marit fete Georg Laie (296) Given the Shower bersl can hardy be ecwed of Maris lang, dhs lance git ike some resdes 3 furious Bur Lue wats major champion of te eit novel, wich = sama i | i he viewed a he supe culmination ofthe marie form or hi ‘he grea reais, he Buz of Tolstoy, suceeded in epesnaing the toa of bua ein socal cotert the epreenting the fr damental wth of hisory the unbroken upward elon of man Hind (Lue, 3) Prolong himself ‘poli human abies srs tht the abe of prolearian oman eto rconaroc the ‘ample human personaly apd frei fom the dstorion and dis rmembermeat to whic it as been subjected in das soi” (5). He fea the grat at tain in ata the atempt to usa this fal ofthe ttl human being even under historia conditions that pete is eason ouside a inate necesar degre of sje in the epetentation of te human subj, both a pit india anda» publ cten, ab bestaned onl trough the repeentaon of pe abicarger thatthe types'apeelarsybests wich orginal binds togeterhe genera 2 the parca both in character snd stuns (6). He en pos, ‘on to na that toe grees tr eyperion oll ote ar orm “Tue ret elim thu-dpice man and society a complete ents, lnnendofshoningmetely or orth ote ots Messed bythe cto, att ends determined by either xiv t= ‘pecton of excuse sarversion qual impor ard dt el iy Thus veal nan te ceria an alleoundrese, at 6 Given hs view of ellos tht for Liki ay rt Us ere: seo 'the dso ofthe complet human personaly ito pb snd Fries sector conta to de mulaion of th ewence of ran (9) iiceey ose how te ape of ker’ estes might apes to suny fens, The ck of walcingrepreeraon of bah the Jetstar the worn il of women t Pinte Sate’ ean cor Dnt agisll novel writen by beh men and women in the period Foren 1890 and 1920, and Sb echoes Showa’ bjcton Wools Sion when she cane tat in Wool there i no coberent snemps to cate new mde, new images of women abd Uat "is fare to cary herent tzough at ber novel seco et 6 Jeet in pt, fom ber asthe tories" (231). at this demand for ew, resi images of women tales i for granted that fein sores shoud wane to we reali Seton forme ia the frst place. Tins both Stubbs and Showalter obec 1 what hey rear Wool tendency to wrap everyshing in "hae of subjective percep tions! Grubbs, 251), pesouly echo se che proces ski's Sulit ews of the eacionary natre of madera wating Moderiam, Les ld sgned az exten form ofthe frgrented subject adidas prychologen ypc of the ope and exploted human mibjec of capa For hr, fren ae wel a Sores, Joye a well as Prot were decent, epesive Sse dats ofthe great anti-human Nietiche, and thelr at thle ‘self 9 explotation by fs. Only trough » strong commited Tele humanist ales oad at Broome an efeine weapon ia te struggle agin ecm iva hs emphasis on a tling, emit {esthetic o proclaim a ate ar 1938 tat de get ‘writers of heft pare ofthe rene entry would sndoubtedy farm our o be Anale Fance, Ronin Roliod and Thoms aad Showalter not ofcourse ike kis, 2 i aan, ve Shere is deeabie within er Leary else a tog, ungueioned Tne nth wales, ot of proletarian humanism, but of taitonsl ‘ourgeoisbumanian of ibea-ndvdut ind, Where Luks es the Burmonious development of the "whole person sted end used by the ishuman socal condions posed by capa Showalter eames the oppression of wees potent by the lent les sean of parca society. is ceralniy ee thi Uakles, nowhere sem to show any terest nde specie problems of mms ‘Aiicales in deroping ar whole and harmonious una beings ‘oder pny no doube he ese any thet once commas Id ben constuced ercybody, incloing women, would become fre beings. But i egclly te ta Shojaler is ber own esis tes no interestin the neces of combating cepa nd fc Her inten on the aed for polite at nite othe supe gust sexism. Thus she giver Virginia Wool no ered for hing ‘laboraed highly orginal theory ofthe elation beeen sem nd fac in The Guba nor does she appear to approve of Wool” i temps oink ein to pcan in the sume esa, of whic she ‘Toe Cur igs ae. languge, 00 fount sem sloganeering nd cicht the site cs ofrepeton etggeton, nthe custion £0 smusirg in A Roo of Ones Ou coe irating ond ster es9 Stovales uations humane surficesclely enough when she fires Wool fr being oo nj, too pave ap fr wanting ‘ofl her ferale gender ey by embracing thee of anogyy. tte hen goes ono repecach Doi Lean for merging the fenitine eg! ito a greater collesive consciousness in berate books (31), oth writer are sly ved boc ave i een way ejected {he fundamental ned forthe inv to adopt nied, integrated deny. Sod Woolf sd Les rca undermine de boven ofthe ary th eral concegt of Westen mile aman snd ‘necro Showers eis, "The Lakician case impli advocated by Sbbe and Showaer ois har ps sa mater ofthe right conte beng vepresated 2 ‘he core alt frm, Vrginia Wel is unmcesfl Subb's je: becuse she fas wo ive 2th picture of women’ a pietwe tat, ‘would inde equal empaton the private and the pe Showaler forker part deplores Wolf nck of nai 0 ways im wich [female experience] had mate [women] seong’ (285. Impl In ‘ich rcs the ssumpion th good feminist Seton wo res axel images of sang women With which te veader may Wes ‘Uy, Inded Is this that Marca Holly recommends im an arele ‘atid! ‘Coesiouess and aun: towards fami ese ffom formals exc and isis that we Judge by sundae of other! (4). Holy, agin quoting Lub, abo angus ats feminist We are sachin ot revluonary a. The cone of gen ad therfore rl Revolutionary ats that which root oat the essentials aout the human contin ether than perpeturing fle dole. we) or Holly his kind of univeszing humanist acti lads sualgh to 2 earch forthe reresenation of trong. powerfl women fn berate, 4 seach reminicent of The Soviet Weer” Congress -alled tol loge arm of ‘writing fe frm Keon techn, nts a sar break eth ‘rmbolic language, ar ofcourse do many of th echt be deploys inher nore Kristeva sho argos that may women wil be able et what she cathe spud fore’ ofthe unconscious dup thi ange Irae of ther strong inks withthe pe-Onipl mother figure Bat if these cones pltons were to ake ove the subject ety. the subject would fl ick into. pre Oedipal or imaginary chao and Sevsop some frm of mena Ses The eject who Language ts n R such Fores drape the syle ode, in her words ao dhe jet who rte greter i of aps ino dese Seen cs conte, Wools owa period tacks of reat lins can be liked out ober taal sates nd o her feria, For the sree ‘onder se pacha onder, ale bythe Law of the Fae, ny Subject ho tres to durop who les uneonsctou forces lp through the symbol epson, puts er or hime na poston of revolt agit this regime, Wool! heel sufered ace purr fpprssin atthe hans of the pear tbh, MD le contains ot ony splendidly scl aack on that profes (errepreseied by Si Willan adh), toa supertiy pepe Gloas epresatin of mind tha asec imaginary hao ‘he charter of Seems Sih Indeed Spm cn be teen a he ‘gute pull to Criss Dlloway, who hel sets le ofthe ‘hreenng gui of madness only athe pice of pes her sons ad dese, becoming scald but brian woman highly adred a rca ote inthe way Woof doo the danger ote ia Hon of unconscious palions a wall asthe price pid bythe sbjo ‘who sucesfly preserves er sn, ti taining» reais Talance berween ah overstimaon of t-cald eiine madnes and 2 too reap rejection ofthe aie of he symbol onder Tes ident Ua fo ua tea not the ilogal sex of eon, bu the mbjox poion she oe ats up hat deerines, ‘her evluonary potent Her views of feminist pales fects ‘sfual of biologi apd exentaem, The fruit sgl, abe frgoes, most be Sen historical and patel 4 teeseed one, ich canbe ebro untae a flows: Women demand equal assess to the smbolle onder, Libel fens. Buy ‘Women jet the male symbolic onder in the mame offence, adel ene, Femina xl (Ths ie Kester’: ow poston) Women ret the dchoromy berween mascline and feminine as metaphysical ‘he dvd poston is ope ht hus dean erween masclasy snd femininity, and thereore_ aes lallenges the very noon of enya wits grid the opporion Inthe thi atotade, which strongly advocate — which magne? the ver dichetoy manjroman a a poston beeen tal trates may be understood ts bloging to metphac: Wrat can deity even ‘ena det, mean 3 Rew theses an cr cope where te very maton of erty ie changed? (en's 39-4) ‘The relaionip becween the second andthe third postions here regres rome comment Ifthe defeated potion ipl tol eeton of sage wo (which onc sink des), chs would ‘bea grievous policl erorFor sll esas uly ena or feminis to defend wornen a women in oer to counteract he trarhal opprenon that precely despises some women, Bu 2 "udeconsructed” form of sage two! Femi, snaware of the ‘meuplysial aatre of gender denies, ron thers of tecoxing ‘m imeted form of sexs does so by ner bing over te ‘Rey metaphyealeategones stp by patrachy i orer to exp ‘women inthe ples, espe ate oath ee eins les (0 thse ld elegorte An adoption of Kristen's “deconsrctd for of ferins teeore in one sense eres reything ar ~ four postions im the polcal srvggle have not changed ~ Dat {another sense radically ansfnme our vars ofthe nate of ar seugge ‘ee I fe, Krsea’sfeminsm echoes the psn then up by ‘ina Woolfsome sy yeas eater Red frome ts perspec, ‘eigenen te destructive nature of mcapytl bee In tong mmurably fixed gender identes ~ a represented by Me sd Mi Ramnay ~ whereas Ly Brice (an att) repeat he subject who deconstce ths opponiion, pervs perio Influence and wie as fr as pomble sm «wl rp pacha cer to lve at her ow woman, witout feat for de cxpling

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