Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" and Betty Friedan's "The Second Stage": The Role of the Outsider.

Autor/in	Hynes, Nancy
Titel	Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" and Betty Friedan's "The Second Stage": The Role of the Outsider.
Quelle	(1988), (10 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Comparative Analysis; Females; Feminism; Literary Criticism; Sex Bias; Sex Role; Social Change; Social Structure; Twentieth Century Literature + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Feminismus; Literaturkritik; Geschlechterrolle; Sozialer Wandel; Sozialstruktur
Abstract	Although both Virginia Woolf in "Three Guineas" and Betty Friedan in "The Second Stage" address the role of women as "outsiders" in a male-dominated society, their attitudes towards the issue--despite certain similarities--differ in at least one important way. "Three Guineas," a feminist-pacifist satire on patriarchy written on the brink of World War Two, asserts that women can not join the male-dominated society but must create a new society--an "outsiders' society"--using passive and active methods to work for the same aims. Friedan's book parallels Woolf's in subject matter: analyzing a women's movement; working for women's awareness of their educational, economic, and professional inequalities; and agreeing that not to bring feminine values into the public forum threatens human survival. Friedan analyzes the first stage of the women's movement, then calls for a second stage, one which liberates men from their "macho" image and restructures family and home. Despite some similarities in their attitudes, the major difference between Friedan and Woolf lies in Woolf's insistence on women's staying outside the system, while Friedan argues that women can no longer remain outside, but must work on the "inside," restructuring family and home to benefit both men and women. (MM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC