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Female Epistemology in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse
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Through her depiction of Lily Briscoe in To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf anticipates the major premises of feminist epistemology.
Lily’s deviation from the “Angel of the House” demonstrates her “reclamation of the body” and her rejection of the Cartesian concept of the separation of mind and body. Instead of being subservient to a husband, Lily demonstrates a move towards a more independent woman because she remains unmarried and strives to make her own living as an artist, rather than clean the house and raise the children. As an artist, her job is to convey her emotions through her paintings, which would automatically stray from the Descartes version of epistemology. This departure from the idealized Victorian woman leads Charles T
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