Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Thought

Virginia Woolf, famous British female writer and literary theorist, stream-ofconsciousness literature representative, was honored as the forerunner of 20 th century feminism. Woolf based on the background of the times and the real life, expounds the relationship between women and writing from the aspects of women’s writing tradition, women’s writing condition, women’s image, “androgyny”and other aspects.She stressed the importance of economic independence for women’s writing.Advocated women to establish their own writing tradition. To encourage women to writing. Get rid of the female images of the male writers. Under the premise of recognizing gender differences, Woolf advocate androgyny. This paper attempts to sort out and analyze Woolf’s feminist ideas and theories, prove the development and transcendence of the thought in the history of feminist development.This paper is divided into five parts. The first part is the introduction of this paper, mainly introduces the significance of the research on VirginiaWoolf’s feminist thought,the domestic and foreign research review.The second part introduces the background of VirginiaWoolf ’s feminist thought. First of all, the special family education bring her some literary skills, patriarchal family let feminist ideas take rood in her body. Secondly, effects of the Bloomsbury group of Woolf also can not be ignored. Again, the women’s Liberation Movement provided a base for her feminist thought.The third part introduces VirginiaWoolf ’s thinking on women and writing. Woolf recognizes the shadow of the patriarchal culture on women’s history, she devoted to discover the tradition of female writing.The fourth part introduces the female image under Woolf’s creation. Woolf clearly saw the control of the whole social ideology and culture of the patriarchal system, they created a series of false images of women. She constantly break the old tradition of writing in the personal creation practice, to promote the killing of the angel in the house. This is a subversion to the writing of Patriarchal society.The fifth part describes the expression of VirginiaWoolf on the relationship between the gender. She refute the binary opposition of gender. She appeal to communication between woman and man. And put forward the “androgyny”.The last part is the conclusion of this paper. It is a summarized evaluation of VirginiaWoolf ’s feminist thought. By combing the history of Feminism, this paper proved the transcendence of Woolf Virginia’s feminist thought.