I have started reading Room of one's own by Virginia Woolf. I remember vaguely we had one of her articles in puc (11th standard). So far its style is fabulous. I haven't seen any feminism it is supposed to represent.
But I do agree with the basic idea. A person who is jailed within the four walls of kitchen can not write anything substantial. (You know I am not talking about myself.) But things have improved a lot for women since she wrote that book. Even in India. If a woman is in a nuclear family, she has entire house to herself, atleast when husband and children are out during daytime. But what does she write about? About how expensive the onions have become? About how lazy the maid servants are? Or about how the children nowadays don't study?
But again here internet comes to her rescue. She can read newspapers of any country. She can read books and write any thing and publish it. Thank you O God for providing us with Internet
But I do agree with the basic idea. A person who is jailed within the four walls of kitchen can not write anything substantial. (You know I am not talking about myself.) But things have improved a lot for women since she wrote that book. Even in India. If a woman is in a nuclear family, she has entire house to herself, atleast when husband and children are out during daytime. But what does she write about? About how expensive the onions have become? About how lazy the maid servants are? Or about how the children nowadays don't study?
But again here internet comes to her rescue. She can read newspapers of any country. She can read books and write any thing and publish it. Thank you O God for providing us with Internet
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