...were able to define themselves.60 Woolf states the case simply: "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."61 Humanism further diminished women's sense and "size" of self by constituting the subject capable...

...discourse" (1985b, 129). Like Virginia Woolf, who argued that "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size" (1975, 37), Irigaray contends: Now woman, starting with this flat mirror alone, can only come...

...from achieving their potential? If, as Virginia Woolf says, "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size", then why have women accepted this state of affairs for so long? What in the history of the United...

...subjugation had been necessary to man's "power to believe in himself": "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Without that power probably the earth would still be swamp and jungle." Perhaps my husbands had...

...enlightened age, be contested without danger. —Mary Wollstonecraft Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. —Virginia Woolf ^HE RIGHT EDUCATION j of the Female Sex, " as it is in a manner everywhere...

..."these lies, these exaggerations" (TL, 63): "Women have served all these centuries as a looking-glass possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size" (Room, 35). The woman disburdens the man: "she was friendly to him now - he was relieved of his...

...illuminated, I believe, by Virginia Woolf's incisive remark that "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."28 No doubt both the masculine bias in the culture and Wordsworth's special relationship with...

...patriarchy's «traditional mirror». If, as Virginia Woolf had it, «women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size, [butJ if she begins to tell the truth, the figure in the looking-glass shrinks» íWoolf, 35),...

...figured at the intersection of gender and national history. "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size" (RO 35). Reflection is associated with violence: "mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic...

...themselves at women's expense. As Virginia Woolf expressed it: 'Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size' (Woolf, 1946: 53). Female support for masculinity can also take more 'transgressive' forms. For...