A deep reflection on women, society, literature and what matters in life
A Room of One's Own, written almost a century ago, continues to touch the hearts of women today. Because? The easy answer is that her protest against the way patriarchal society and its institutions seek to disable women is still, sadly, current. But perhaps its power is not so much in the argument that it is impossible for a woman to concentrate her energies on intellectual life if she lacks the material possibilities to do so, if she is hungry, she is interrupted, she has to make food or take care of the children. ; not even in the most shameless way of asking for those comforts for pure pleasure. Perhaps her power is not in making these arguments, but in that she does so as she urges us to do throughout the book: writing, or rather speaking, like a woman, with an absolute absence of academic and political vanity. . A Room of One's Own is a book written by a brilliant craftsman of words, ironic, full of imagination and humor. It is high literature pregnant with powerful arguments and radical ideas. That is why, almost a hundred years later, we still consider it key to contributing to the current debate on feminism, and that is why it continues to appear in gender studies bibliographies.