Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
the world's great literature had been written by men. Sappho, Austen, the Brontës and Emily
Dickinson apart, it was difficult to think women really had it in them to write at the highest level.
Literature was literature, and critics saw no need to distinguish a specifically feminine way of writing
or responding to a text.
Virginia Woolf was herself a refutation of that thesis, though her mental breakdown was perhaps
brought on by the strain of balancing male self-realization with female abnegation. But in her essay
Professions for Women, Woolf complained only that women's social obligations hindered a writing
career. Their lives gave them a different perspective, but women were not fundamentally different
from men in their psychological needs and outlooks.
The gathering feminist movement very much disagreed, and argued that women's writing
expressed a distinctive female consciousness, which was more discursive and conjunctive than its
male counterpart
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