Deconstructing Binary Oppositions: A Study of A Room of One's Own
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private space. Beyond advocating for women's rights, this book conducts an in-depth exploration of binary oppositions embedded within cultural and gendered power structures. Adopting a deconstructive theoretical perspective, this paper analyzes three core dichotomies in the text:
male/female, public/private, and material/spiritual. It argues that Woolf critiques and deconstructs these hierarchical binaries, challenges the
power imbalances they perpetuate, and reconstructs women's subjectivity in literature and society.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/wef.v4i4.9904
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