The book is considered a manifesto of the feminist critical movement in the twentieth century, a movement that reached its climax in the seventies and included names such as “Kate Millet - Alice Garden - Helen Sisko.” The importance of the book is that it introduces the issue of feminist criticism and the ideas of the initial feminist movement on which the studies were based Modern women interested in the roles of women since (1928) read "Virginia Woolf" two papers on students of the University of "Cambridge" "" to involve them in the ideas that led.