The Feminist Book Club 1

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12.10.2023

First session of the Feminist Book Club in Booksa, Zagreb.

Edouard Louis: Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme, 2021.
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own, 1929.

12. 10. 2023.

Each of these books is so complex that we could devote an entire session to it, if not more. However, we have opted for this perhaps somewhat unusual combination so that we can follow the continuity of certain themes from the beginning of the 20th century: writing, emancipation, emancipation through writing, the role of sex/gender in the act of writing. Some of the questions we discussed about Louis’ novel are the following:

With the question of gender inequality and education, we connect Louis' novel with the famous essay by V. Woolf. It is an essay published in 1929 (based on two lectures Woolf gave in Cambridge in 1928) that has achieved the status of a feminist classic. We discussed the following questions:

To conclude the first meeting, we compared the ways in which both Woolf and Louis provide insights into the structural conditions of knowledge and power and use writing – a literary technique – to engage with the established institution of literature, focusing on the role of sex/gender in the literary and cultural field.

 

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