文档介绍：professions for women
Virginia Woolf
Women’s issue
all over the world, women fight for equal rights. Do you think it necessary to do the same in china ?
Throughout the history, does chinese women have a high status?
With your experiences from your family and other families around you, whose, husband’s or wife’s opinions are likely to prevail ?
In which aspects are men and women are equal? In which are not ?
讲课人:苏安梅
华南农业大学外国语学院
The speech by Woolf
According to woolf, what are the two problems that prohibit her from pursuing her career as a writer?
Do you think Chinese career women share the same problem?
What is the Angel in the House like? Can you find the her in the Chinese family?
讲课人:苏安梅
华南农业大学外国语学院
Research topic
Chinese women’s place at home
Village women in china
Chinese women in workplace
Chinese girl in the class
讲课人:苏安梅
华南农业大学外国语学院
Reference reading
I want a wife by Judy Syfers,1971.
X: A Fabulous Child's Story -- by Lois Gould © 1972
A room of one’s own by Virginia Woolf
讲课人:苏安梅
华南农业大学外国语学院
Virginia Woolf
1882–1941, English novelist and essayist;
A essful innovator in the form of the novel, she is considered a significant force in 20th-century fiction.
讲课人:苏安梅
华南农业大学外国语学院
In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a critic and writer on economics, with whom she set up the Hogarth Press in 1917. Their home became a gathering place for a circle of artists, critics, and writers known as the Bloomsbury group.
As a novelist Woolf’s primary concern was to represent the flow of ordinary experience.
讲课人:苏安梅
华南农业大学外国语学院
Virginia’s works
Mrs Dalloway The story is about a day in the life of a London society hostess, Clarissa, who’s preparing for a party. The themes she explores are the nature of personal identity, memory and consciousness, the passage of time, and the tensions between the forces of Life and Death. She gives a very lyrical response to the fundamental question, 'What is it like to be alive?' The novel also features her rich expressi