Xueying Cui
School of Language and Culture Communication, Xi'an Mingde Institute of Technology, Xi'an 710124, Shaanxi, China.
*Corresponding author: Xueying Cui
Published: November 30, 2025
Article history: Updated on June 29, 2026
Abstract
Virginia Woolf is a famous British woman writer and one of the most prominent figures of modernism and feminism in the 20th century. A Room of One’s Own is an excellent example of feminist literary theory and a popular short essay. Construction of Nature and Female Subjectivity in this essay shows the marginalised life of women under patriarchy. Woolf connects women’s creative space with material conditions by means of metaphor to show that economic independence and private space are necessary for the liberation of women’s thinking. Gardens and rooms in the text are used to represent the inner spiritual world of women, as well as the deep connection between women and nature; thus, they carry the critique of binary oppositional thinking by ecofeminism (Chen, 2022). Through the study of the awakening of women’s consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s works, this paper will reflect on gender equality between men and women. Thus, the connection between gender oppression and the exploitation of nature has also been rec-ognized as an isomorphism in recent years and has been studied by feminists around the world (Wang, 2020). Woolf’s special narration and deep thinking have made A Room of One’s Own a timeless work that still motivates many scholars and activists to fight for the rights of women and the protection of the environment today.
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How to cite this paper
Research from the Ecofeminist Perspective: A Room of One’s Own
How to cite this paper: Xueying Cui. (2025). Research from the Ecofeminist Perspective: A Room of One’s Own. Translation and Foreign Language Learning, 1(4), 744-748.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/tfll.2025.11.025