Foucault And The Androgynous Mind

In the excerpt from A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf argues that women writers face unfair educational, financial and social disadvantages. Throughout the excerpt, she hopes to persuade readers that in a patriarchal society, a woman must have privacy and financial independence in order to fulfill her literary potential. To accomplish this goal, Woolf effectively appeals to logos, pathos and ethos; however, her emphasis on establishing credibility most successfully persuades her readers.

“Androgyny is a term derived from the Greek words andros, meaning man and gyné, meaning woman, referring to the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics. This may be as in fashion, sexual identity, or sexual lifestyle or it may refer to biologically inter-sexed physicality, especially with regards to plant and human sexuality.”

The Appeal of the Androgynous man by Amy Gross, informs the reader about the Androgynous. Gross’s purpose in this essay is to explain to the reader what/who is the androgynous man. Gross’s does this by, asking what kind of features dose the androgynous man have and what makes him different from the manly man.

Back in the day almost everyone viewed woman to be the person who cleans, cooks, has children, and obeys her husband. Even woman themselves had this view hammered into their minds at such a young age, the views that women are inferior to men. This stigma of woman can be found traced throughout Virginia Woolf’s essay of two meals, a meal for men and a meal for women at a college. She uses numerous composition techniques and effectively disperses them throughout her narrative. By doing so, she accurately demonstrates her views on society’s stigma of a woman's role in an eloquent manner.

Today the equality between men and woman is closer then it ever has before in history, with women CEO’s and stay at home dads. This happened because of the strong woman in history fighting for the same rights as man, private property, creative freedom, and the power to use their intellect. Virginia Woolf is one of those ladies arguing that, “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She believes that women are locked in some sort of intellectual prison and not being able to have money or privacy keeps them locked, unable to blossom intellectually.

Virginia Woolf is a famous novelist, critic, and essayist. She is most known for her novels such as: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Common Reader, and several more. These novels are both fiction and nonfiction, and include compelling psychological insight. Professions for Women is another one of her famous works, and it is the shortened version of a speech that Virginia Woolf gave on January 21, 1931 to the Women’s Service League. In this speech, Woolf conveyed her message about women in the professional world through the use of multiple rhetorical strategies. These strategies include her use of understatements, a variety of tones throughout the speech, and the inclusion of differing sentence structures involving both short sentences and complex sentences. Overall, Woolf has a strong belief that women should be free to work in the professional world, and she conveys this quite well through the use of these strategies.

At the time, a room of one’s own was written, women did not have the same equal opportunity as men. She sees that society is in favor of men. Throughout Woof’s writing, she develops an argument on the difference of how society viewed women and viewed men. She begins by establishing the differences in education. She demonstrations that women did not have equal opportunity as men by telling a story that she made up about William Shakespeare sister. Woolf questioned if Shakespeare had a sister Judith with the same talent as him, would she be able to show her work like he did? Clearly, she would not be given the same opportunity. She stated, “This may be true or it may be false—who can say?—but what is true in it, so it seemed to me, reviewing the story of Shakespeare’s sister as I had made it, is that any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village…” (woolf 366). meaning that if women at the time has that kind of talent like hers they would be silenced because to want that kind of work would be impossible and would end in catastrophic for a female. Therefore, Woof argues that society suffered an immeasurable loss, because society did not allow women to create their own expressions. Judith’s voice would have been lost because society wouldn’t allow her to use it. Consequently, no one

According to Virginia Woolf essay, “Professions for Women,” discusses the struggle that are common among women in the workforce and how they must be stopped. She relate to herself as a young girl wanting to be a writer, but there are many things blocking her way. Society’s view on women makes it harder for them to go after what they want or receive something fairly. Stephen Jay Gould disprove Broca's misogynists about how women's brain are different from men's brain. Broca states that women are not as intelligent as men because they have smaller brain, but “number, by themselves, specify nothing. All depends upon what you do with them,” says Gould. “Barbie Doll”, a poem by Marge Piercy, starts from the birth of a girl child, her growth, adolescence and finally due to over beauty conscious, she finally ended her life and was at the funeral with all extra makeup, the public says she was beautiful and looks pretty. Society viewing women as these perfect little doll and demanding them how to dress, eat, or do their job as a lady. “Perfect Peace,” a novel by David Black, sends an important message to accept who we are born to be and how a girl name Perfect Peace was born a boy. Emma Jean Peace, turned her seventh newborn son into the daughter that God never gave her, Perfect Peace. When Perfect turned eight, her mother decides it was the time for Perfect to know who she actually is. Her mother says, “You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that ain't what you supposed to be, from now on, you gon’ be a boy. As soon as Perfect heard this, she knew her life was about to get complicated. Perfect’s mother thought that she knew all about gender or sexuality. If Perfect stayed a boy in the beginning, then she still would have face many obstacles in her life because life was harder than for men and women. “Nature,” an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is divided into

The theme of Woolf's essay places emphasis on the fact that women need money and a room of one's own to write successfully. Woolf's description of a man's meal and a woman's meal address the issue of material resources that women often lack. By using literary elements such as sentence length, figurative language, and diction, Woolf succeeds in presenting the financial and material differences between men and women. Woolf leaves little doubt about her views and convictions and establishes a theme about women that will be

All the authors were talking about a common problem, which is racism. Each of the writer’s had his own unique way of showing how people got abused just by their sex or by their skin color. Woolf talked about racism against females in the 1700’s by telling her readers to imagine Shakespeare’s sister at that time. Back in that time, females were prohibited to be creative what so ever, and their jobs were to raise kids and care for their husbands only. When Women disobeyed that they were beaten and considered as shameful and that they are bringing disgrace to their families. When women tried to be like men, and write books or be actresses like Shakespeare’s sisters, they ended up facing problems emotionally and psychologically. Furthermore, most

Woolf believes that women are different from men both in their social history as well as inherently, and that each of these differences has had important effects on the development of women 's writing.

Spargo goes on to address some of the criticisms of Foucault and how these failing have been addressed as queer theory has developed. The most significant of these criticism as addressed by Spargo was Foucault’s focus on masculine sexualities . Spargo explores the relationship of the production of sexuality to gender through a discussion of Judith Butler. Butler argues that gender is produced and understood via cultural discourse in the same way as sexuality . Gender according to Butler is

The Panopticon better known as the perfect prison offers a jarring reflection of how society has been monitoring and policing our women through several different practices within a social cycle. Feminist philosopher, Sandra Lee Bartky, displays how everyone in society is guilty of monitoring and policing of femininity in her article, “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power” Bartky’s symbolic use of the Panopticon is a way to allude that systems set in place by the male patriarchy have been a tool in order to oppress and objectify women. Despite the idea of the Panopticon being used to show how women are scrutinized the rest of Bartkey’s argument seems to have flaws by not fully exploring content and making generalizations on who can and cannot be policed. Bartky’s inference to the Panopticon is poignant but despite this the argument made in her article is lacking as she does not fully develop upon her ideas.

Homosexuality is defined as a predominant sexual attraction to persons of the same gender. For example, men being sexually attracted to other men and women being sexually attracted to other women (Exodus Global Alliance, 2017). Heterosexuality however, is the opposite of homosexuality. A heterosexual person has a sexual attraction to a person of the opposite sex, as opposed to an individual of the same sex. In Western society, heterosexuality has been constructed to be viewed as the norm, this however was not always the case. Sociologist Michel Foucault coined the term ‘homosexuality’ arguing that homosexuality was not discovered but produced. “Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul.” Following on from the invention of the term known as homosexuality, medical doctors invented a counter-position, heterosexuality. Although same-sex relationships existed prior to the invention of this terminology, it encouraged people to identify themselves and others differently (Angel Daniel Matos, 2013). As a result, the judgment of gender and

essay in interestingly different ways. Bennett states that Woolf’s essay is not a feminist work, rejects the idea that Woolf’s discussion of women and