Um Quarto Só Seu

In 1928, Virginia Woolf was invited by Cambridge University to give a lecture on women and fiction at the institution's women's colleges. With the frankness the subject demands, Woolf resolves the equation without subterfuge: to write fiction, "a woman must have money and a room of her own." In other words, you must be free. Discussing the material and social conditions necessary for a woman to write and create, if she so desires, and exploring the effects of poverty or sexual constraint on female creativity, Virginia Woolf offered her audience and all subsequent generations a provocative and stimulating reflection on the condition of women and the social alienation to which they have been subjected since antiquity in a world dominated by men. Considered one of the most important texts of the 20th century, A Room of One's Own marks a founding moment of modern feminism, returning to the political sphere an old and just struggle: that of equality.