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    Virginia Woolf argues in A Room of One's Own that economic independence is necessary for women to produce literature. She illustrates the small privileges men had access to, such as university libraries and fine food, which women lacked. This lack of financial independence and private space made it difficult for women to create good literature. Woolf counters the argument that women were intellectually inferior by stating the problem was the systemic economic disadvantages women faced under the societal norms that unthinkingly gave wealth to men. She believes giving women the same economic privileges as men, like a room of their own, would allow them to produce fine literature at the same rate as men.

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    Virginia Woolf argues in A Room of One's Own that economic independence is necessary for women to produce literature. She illustrates the small privileges men had access to, such as university libraries and fine food, which women lacked. This lack of financial independence and private space made it difficult for women to create good literature. Woolf counters the argument that women were intellectually inferior by stating the problem was the systemic economic disadvantages women faced under the societal norms that unthinkingly gave wealth to men. She believes giving women the same economic privileges as men, like a room of their own, would allow them to produce fine literature at the same rate as men.

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    How does Virginia Woolf conceive of the relationship between economic independence and literary
    production in A Room of One's Own?

    Woolf builds a careful and convincing argument that economic independence is necessary for literary production. In
    A Room of One's Own, she focuses on illustrating all the small details that are different between the life of a man and
    the life of a woman in her society to build a cumulative picture of male privilege versus female want. She discusses
    the university library that men can enter but women cannot. She compares the fine food and wine at the men's
    colleges to the austere mutton and water at the women's colleges. She shows that men have very often taken it for
    granted that they will have private space in which to work, whereas women seldom are afforded the same luxury. By
    doing this, Woolf paints a picture that shows how difficult it is for women to produce literature—especially good
    literature—because they lack the financial independence and privacy to do so.

    Woolf is countering arguments that were still prevalent in the 1920s that women did not produce great literature at
    the same rate as men because they were intellectually inferior. She argues that the problem is not innate inferiority
    but manufactured, systemic economic inferiority under which societal wealth is unthinkingly given to men. Give a
    woman the same economic and social privileges as men, such as a room of her own, and they will produce fine
    literature at the same rate as men.

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