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Abstract
This article revisits A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s foundational 1929 text on women’s writing. I examine from a feminist materialist perspective the relevance of Woolf’s notion of a “room” in our globalized and technological twenty-first century. I first review Woolf’s position on the material conditions necessary for women writers in her own time and then the applicability of her thinking for contemporary women writers on a global scale. I emphasize that the politics of writing, and in particular writing by women, that Woolf puts forth gives feminists the necessary tools to reevaluate and rethink women’s writing both online and offline. I therefore argue that Woolf’s traditional work on materiality can be updated and developed to further inform what is now, in the twenty-first century, an urgent need for women writers, a feminist philosophy of sexual difference in relation to technology, and an e-feminism of online spaces and women’s online writing.
Recommended Citation
Zimmerman, Tegan. 2018. "The Politics of Writing, Writing Politics: Virginia Woolf’s A [Virtual] Room of One’s Own." Journal of Feminist Scholarship 3 (Fall): 35-55. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol3/iss3/4
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