WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Simone De Beauvoir, Bloomsbury Group, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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WS-100: Lecture 4 September 20th, 2017
Virginia Woolf:
-her father says that girls should never have power, are not strong, etc.
-he named her Virginia after the state of Virginia because it was considered a “virgin
land”
-both her mother and father said that the role of women were to serve men
-she grew up in a household where she didn't make sense
-she learnt that she didn't have to stand alone
-she posed in terms of questions; what is truth? who’s truth? and why is it that
persons truth?
-she was a writer, but she never wanted to write in a way in which men write, to write
as if she was buying into something that gave her status, she decided to write with
words such as “mankind” and “I” because it gives her an ego
-she wanted to think of women at the core of everything that she wrote
-she would walk the streets of London at night, and the rule was that if you were a
pretty women alone you were emblematic of a prostitute, so men had the write to
pick you up and do what they wanted
-the idea was, that prostitutes were poisonous, if soldiers had sex with a prostitute
then went to war, they wouldn't win because they have lost their testosterone
-Virginia did not care about this rule because she didn't agree with the way things
were
-Virginia met someone (female) and they fell in love
-Bloomsbury Group -> same sex relations could be fun
-Canada has the highest rate of PTSD in all of the world
-Virginia and the B group wrote about this ^
-she notes that some of the leaders in Britain are meeting with Hitler and red flags
have arose
-her work remains significant
-1920’s -> nobody wanted to be involved in the feminist social movement after the
war, many of the things that women fought for weren't realized, women were
pressured to look beautiful, etc.
-Nobody wanted to fight for rights, yet Virginia was still writing and many more people
-Very few privileged white women heard these things and never made sure that
changes occurred
Simone de Beauvoir:
-born in 1908 to a very privilege family
-her father made a dumb investment and lost all their money, meaning he could not
marry her off to another man, this was victory to Simone!
-For her, university was freedom, it was being able to make decisions about her own
future
-she went to school for philosophy and she was the smartest one there
-What she experiences as a student is amazing sexism, they said she could not
represent and know her field that well
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Her father says that girls should never have power, are not strong, etc. He named her virginia after the state of virginia because it was considered a virgin land . Both her mother and father said that the role of women were to serve men. She grew up in a household where she didn"t make sense. She learnt that she didn"t have to stand alone. She wanted to think of women at the core of everything that she wrote. The idea was, that prostitutes were poisonous, if soldiers had sex with a prostitute then went to war, they wouldn"t win because they have lost their testosterone. Virginia did not care about this rule because she didn"t agree with the way things were. Virginia met someone (female) and they fell in love. Bloomsbury group -> same sex relations could be fun. Canada has the highest rate of ptsd in all of the world.

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