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Elizabeth Southward

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Elizabeth Southward

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……….Gender discrimination is revealed through the transformation of a male to a female. Orlando is brought up in an aristocratic society and is exposed to famous philosophers and poets like Nicholas Greene. Orlando has the capability to choose a woman and ability to be an ambassador to Constantinople as well. Orlando has the capability to compose poems and express himself through writing. Orlando has the upper hand in society as a male in society, but even if he were of the middle class he would still be in the same position. Orlando’s transformation shocks, yet excites the town, especially with the trumpets blaring. In effect Woolf hypothesizes what would happen in society if she were to come out as well as demonstrates her own hesitations with her true nature. A critic named Toni A. H. McNaron focuses on Woolf’s homosexuality within her article A Lesbian Reading when she claims, “The whole question of identification became central to my evolving connection with Virginia about seventeen years ago” (McNaron 15). McNaron characterizes Woolf’s sexuality as a way of characterization. Woolf demonstrates the transformation of Orlando as her own attempt to express empowerment with women.

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Elizabeth Southward

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Orlando realizes once he is a woman that she does not have the advantages she once did. Orlando attempts to reconcile her writing ability and does so successively. She travels with a tribe of gypsies and Orlando recognizes the separation between the socio-economic classes. Men from the tribe observe her intellect and as a reaction plot her murder. In Woolf’s excerpt, she illustrated men’s disapproval of women’s discernment, when she clarifies, “…There was an enormous body of masculine opinion to the effect that nothing could be expected of women intellectually. Even if her father did not read out loud these opinions, any girl could read them for herself; and the reading, even in the nineteenth century, must have lowered her vitality, and told profoundly upon her work” (Woolf 54). Men’s opinion of women’s discernment was extreme disgust and denied women’s capability of intellectual expression. Woolf stresses the major disadvantage of women and subservience in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Orlando is a prime example of Woolf’s contempt with societal standards in the eighteenth century and difficulty with her own sexual desires.

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About The Author: Elizabeth Southward currently studies English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue the field of Public Relations upon her graduation. She sought out modeling at the end of May 2011, and currently spends her free time partaking in shoots. She was signed to Reinhard Agency in Philadelphia in August of 2011. She hopes to continue modeling full-time upon graduation and model internationally.
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Her interests include volunteering at the Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood, NJ. She specifically nurtures felines in preparation for adoption. Other interests include: tutoring elementary age children, fashion, reading the classics, baking, traveling, and attending cultural events in the Philadelphia area.

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About The Photographer: Clare Din is enrolled in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and is also an alumni of Penn Engineering, Class of 1991.

Elizabeth Southward

Posted on January 15th, 2012 by Elizabeth Southward

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Virginia Woolf is ambiguous with her definition of the genders. In the beginning of the novel, Orlando’s gender is skewed and she sets readers up for confusion. Woolf portrays Orlando to be partially feminine when she states, “But, alas, that these catalogues of youthful beauty cannot end without mentioning forehead and eyes” (Woolf 12). Rarely is a male described as being beautiful – a male is praised for her masculinity or for his chiseled jaw. Woolf though adds a sentiment of feminity to Orlando’s character. He is known for his shapely legs, another feminine attribute. Through Woolf’s female touch she better explains her sexuality and underlying hardships. She uses Orlando as a way of expressing her own difficulty with coming out. Woolf is affected by her own hidden sexuality, but she opts to set the novel in the Elizabethan time period, a time of limited expression for women.

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Elizabeth Southward

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……….During the Elizabethan time period women were unable to express themselves through writing or to hold their own opinions without criticism. Women had to depend on men, whether they had a choice or not. In the excerpt of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, she exemplifies women’s lack of independence, “She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother’s perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers” (Woolf 47). Women were at a major disadvantage in comparison to men. Men were able to receive education and women were domesticated to house chores. Parents reinforced the inferiority of women by forcing them into the kitchen. In relation to Orlando, Woolf works backwards to demonstrate gender discrimination

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About The Author: Elizabeth Southward currently studies English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue the field of Public Relations upon her graduation. She sought out modeling at the end of May 2011, and currently spends her free time partaking in shoots. She was signed to Reinhard Agency in Philadelphia in August of 2011. She hopes to continue modeling full-time upon graduation and model internationally.
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Her interests include volunteering at the Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood, NJ. She specifically nurtures felines in preparation for adoption. Other interests include: tutoring elementary age children, fashion, reading the classics, baking, traveling, and attending cultural events in the Philadelphia area.

Yang Hu

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Yang Hu

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……….If I could have the power of changing the proportion of day and night in one day, I would make every single minute of a 24-hour period – full of sunshine. Growing up in a tropical city, that has only one season a year, which is summer: I’m used to being spoiled with unlimited sun light. I didn’t realize how I took wearing sundresses all year long for granted until I came to Philadelphia. I always like to work and hang out in places with big windows that let in a lot of light.

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Yang Hu

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For this series, I chose windows/glass and architecture as my theme. The Comcast Center, La Colombe Coffee Shop, McDonald’s, Pottruck Gym; seemingly unrelated subjects magically came together because of their common possession of glass windows – which embrace a generous amount of sun light.

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Yang Hu

. Sunshine is a theme that can be traced back to my childhood. Thanks to photography, I understand who I am and where I came from better than any other moments in my life.

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Yang Hu

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About The Author: Yang Hu is a senior enrolled in the College of the University of Pennsylvania. Class of 2012

Elizabeth Southward

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Elizabeth Southward

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How can women gain an upper hand with the eighteenth century limitations and man’s superiority in society? In the two texts, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe and Fantomina by Eliza Haywood, one protagonist connives their way to fulfill empty vanity whereas the other manipulates for financial satisfaction. Moll, the protagonist from Moll Flanders discovers her independence from the exchange of sexual favors for monetary value and eventually begins a career in thieving when she reaches middle age. Moll is on the low end of the totem pole. Fantomina who is considered aristocratic is intrigued by the idea of prostitution in order to win over an unreliable suitor. Each protagonist views the manipulation of man as the starting point of feminism. Although both women seize control by the means if manipulation only Moll attains true satisfaction, whereas Fantomina does not.

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Elizabeth Southward

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Throughout the course of each novella and novel the usage of disguise is crucial to each character’s means of control. Fantomina is first intrigued by a prostitute, which spurs her many disguises. Fantomina can envision herself consuming attention that this particular prostitute receives. Ultimately she decides to dress down for acknowledgement.

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About The Author: Elizabeth Southward currently studies English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue the field of Public Relations upon her graduation. She sought out modeling at the end of May 2011, and currently spends her free time partaking in shoots. She was signed to Reinhard Agency in Philadelphia in August of 2011. She hopes to continue modeling full-time upon graduation and model internationally.

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Her interests include volunteering at the Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood, NJ. She specifically nurtures felines in preparation for adoption. Other interests include: tutoring elementary age children, fashion, reading the classics, baking, traveling, and attending cultural events in the Philadelphia area.