Taking the Bull by the Udders’: Sexual Difference in Virginia Woolf—a Conspiracy Theory

Abstract

It has been with a considerable shaking in my shoes, and a feeling of treading upon a carpet of eggs, that I have taken the cow by the horns in this chapter, and broached the subject of the part that the feminine mind has played — and minds as well, deeply feminized, not technically on the distaffside — in the erection of our present criteria. For fifteen years I have subsisted in this to me suffocating atmosphere.