The fundamental notion of the female writer evolved in the 19th century, when women were and continued to be considered inferior beings compared to their male counterparts. This is particularly visible in the literary canon, where women writers are rarely included in “reputable” literary works, let alone incorporated into any canon. Virginia Woolf, in her essay "In a Room of One's Own" (1925), details the apparent trials and tribulations that Victorian women writers experienced as they attempted to gain recognition within a literary community. The author is revisited during the second wave of the feminist movement by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar in their psychoanalytic text, "Infection in the Sentence" (1979), which focuses on the "anxiety" associated with the act of write as a woman. The approach to identifying complex social constructs applied to women writers differs due to Woolf's emphasis on androgynous writing in order to unify perceived masculine and feminine characteristics, while Gilbert and Gubar celebrate distinctly feminine literature as a means to encourage an active literary community of women. Both texts recognize the socially difficult function of authorship when considering the role of women as writers in a male-dominated literary community. Analyzing these texts through a feminist lens, it is evident that the notion of female authorship is, and forever will be, encapsulated within the concept of gender itself. Female authorship is approached through the literary concepts of genius, androgyny, the popular canon and psychoanalysis. In order to analyze the ways in which women writers have been traditionally rejected from the Western literary sphere and the medium of paper......at the head of the movement. However, we can conclude that women's writing will always focus on women's authorial voice, because women's writing will and always will be a discourse on gender. Works Cited Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. Infection in the sentence. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Leitch, Vincent B and all. New York: WW Norton & Co, 2010. 1926-1938.Print.Gubar, Susan. ““The blank page” and the challenges of female creativity” Critical Inquiry 8.2 (1981): 243-263. Print.Restuccia, Frances L. ““Untying the Mother Tongue: Feminine Difference in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 4.2 (1985): 253-264. Print.Woolf, Virginia. A room of your own. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Leitch, Vincent B and all. New York: WW Norton & Co, 2010.896-905. Print.