Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Analysis

“Science, it would seem, is not sexless: he is a man, a father, and infected too” (Woolf, 1938). Feminist Virginia Woolf declares this bold statement to express how science is sexist; gender bias by which women’s interests, insight, or perspective are disvalued and ostracized. Over the decades, there has been an outburst of the feminist writing on the philosophical development in literature and history. A majority of the feminist writings harshly criticize the philosophical traditions, which include topics of epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, and brings up the expected question of why does the history of philosophy have such an importance impact on feminist philosophers? Countless feminist philosophers have studied the philosophical development throughout the years
Feminist philosophers are then faced with the philosophical tradition that are believed women are unimportant and excluding women from philosophical history. Of course though, women are not entirely absent from the history of philosophy. The philosophical customs such as reason and objectivity have been proven through metaphors or images that it dismisses all ideas associated with women. In response, feminist philosophers have argued the records are incomplete due to the missing of female philosophers or are biased when demeaning the women mentioned. Feminist philosophers feel the philosophical traditions are objective towards the gender male and they yearn in changing the norms and including women in the philosophical “us”. However, feminist perspectives appear to have had greater impact on sciences that involve subjects of inquiry that are understood as gendered in the social and human sciences and, secondarily, on sciences characterized in gendered terms, metaphorically or by analogy, the biological and life