Virginia Woolf's Relationship Between Women And Women

In Virginia Woolf 's work, A Room of One 's Own, in her writing on "Shakespeare 's Sister" and "Chloe Liked Olivia," there is a sense of mourning for literature composed by women that never had the opportunity to come into existence for a variety of reasons. Woolf is correct when she asserts that in the past women did not have equal opportunity to write as did men, thus there are likely masterpieces that could have been created had women been given the chance, however she appears to contradict herself in her writing on androgyny, when she states that the best writer is one who has a mind with no gender. However, what is in fact being emphasized is not that the absence of women writers has caused a female perspective to be missing, rather,

However, in the section A Room of One 's Own, "Chloe and Olivia," Woolf uses this example to further explain how gender often gets in the way of things, especially when it comes to literature. Had centuries past not been so sex-conscious women would have not only been able to compose, but they would have also not have been portrayed as fragile, jealous, petty and conniving creatures and nothing more. Woolf says that in fact they are more, and "sometimes women do like women" (Woolf 899). Meaning, literature has depicted them unfairly and this has added to their oppression, thus focusing on gender and what sex says about someone, which is a mistake. Woolf 's section on androgyny in A Room of One 's Own makes her points about what she feels makes a good writer, whereas in "Shakespeare 's Sister," and "Chloe Liked Olivia," she explains what the absence of women and working class writers means. She explains what Coleridge thought, a writer she thought wrote with an non-gendered mind, when he said "that a great mind is androgynous" (Woolf 901). She