现代大学英语精读5 第五课professions_for_women（可编辑）.doc

现代大学英语精读5 第五课professions_for_women professions for women Virginia Woolf Womens issue all over the world women fight for equal rights Do you think it necessary to do the same in china Throughout the history does chinese women have a high status With your experiences from your family and other families around you whose husbands or wifes opinions are likely to prevail In which aspects are men and women are equal In which are not The speech by Woolf According to woolf what are the two problems that prohibit her from pursuing her career as a writer Do you think Chinese career women share the same problem What is the Angel in the House like Can you find the her in the Chinese family Research topic Chinese womens place at home Village women in china Chinese women in workplace Chinese girl in the class Reference reading I want a wife by Judy Syfers1971 X A Fabulous Childs Story -- by Lois Gould 1972 A room of ones own by Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf 1882–1941 English novelist and essayist A successful innovator in the form of the novel she is considered a significant force in 20th-century fiction In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf a critic and writer on economics with whom she set up the Hogarth Press in 1917 Their home became a gathering place for a circle of artists critics and writers known as the Bloomsbury group As a novelist Woolfs primary concern was to represent the flow of ordinary experience Virginias works Mrs Dalloway The story is about a day in the life of a London society hostess Clarissa whos preparing for a party The themes she explores are the nature of personal identity memory and consciousness the passage of time and the tensions between the forces of Life and Death She gives a very lyrical response to the fundamental question What is it like to be alive The novel also features her rich expression of the interior monologue and offers a subtle critique of society recovering in the aftermath of the first world war