...exposed. Although Virginia Woolf suggested the bias in 1929, when she observed that ". . . footbali and sport are 'important'; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes 'trivial,' " scholars have only recently considered the many ramifications of her observation.22 In 1988. Regina...

...as Holly Brubach points out, it was Virginia Woolf who in the 1920s argued against a system in which "it is the masculine values that prevail. Speaking...worship of fashion, the buying of clothes 'trivial,' " anticipating — though Brubach does not add this — a feminist cultural criticism that has argued...

...Woolf also questions the value judgment implicit in the privileging of male over female experience: "Speaking crudely, football and sport are 'important';...worship of fashion, the buying of clothes 'trivial'" (74). By now, this argument is commonplace for any feminist critic, but it seems not to have reached...