Women Being Hidden

In chapter 3 of A Room Of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf talks about how women throughout history in big events and in literature were often not given credit for what they did or hid behind a veil. She talks about women who were given credit for what they did and how they were often treatedContinue

The Words Feminist and Feminism

In her book, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Bell Hooks talks about the words, feminist and feminism in the contexts of their definitions and uses. She discusses how their definitions and connotations have changed and evolved throughout history to often become negative and produce negative thoughts and feelings especially for women. I believe thatContinue

Gender and The Division of Labor

A. “A Woman’s Work is Never Done” A complaining and lamenting ballad The “I” in the song is supposedly a married women. A song for maidens to warn about married life. Married women lived a stolid life full of constant hard work. Maidens and the general populous should listen to my song. I wake upContinue

Sexism and “Natural” Magic

By: Rachel Lyle, May 19th, 2017 In Uprooted by Naomi Novik wizards tend to have a type of magic that is concentrated on one area of magic such as healing, or medicinal magic or plant, or earth magic. Each wizard has a wizard name based on what their concentration of magic is, such as theContinue

Woman-Womanly, or Man-Womanly

By: Rachel Lyle, May 12th, 2017 In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf talks about the mind of a female versus the mind of a male. She explains how people think that they need to be completely one sex or the other in both mind and body, but she explains that she does notContinue