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Two looks at femininity: Joan of Arc and Mary Wollstonecraft
from Ágora número 27
by Ágora Colmex
Ingrid Hali Tokun Haga Alvarez
In 1929 Virginia Woolf published A Room of One’s Own, a book in which she imagined Julia, the gifted sister of William Shakespeare, a woman not allowed by social conventions to achieve all her potential as a writer. Even two hundred years later, at the start of the twenty-f irst century, women continue facing a glass ceiling that does not allow them to develop all their capabilities. 1 Nevertheless, throughout history there have always been women who have broken down the barriers that held them back, that limited their abilities to dream and act. In this text I study the case of two of them: Mary Wollstonecraft and Joan of Arc., This essay analyse and discuss
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1 Guardian writers, «Women of 2015: where are the cracks in the glass ceiling?», London, The Guardian, December 30, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/30/women-feminism2015-glass-ceiling, retrieved April 12, 2017.