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A Study of Gender in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Moslehi Mahboubeh, MA, Niazi Nozar, PhD English Language and Literature, Lorestan State University, Khorramabad, Iran Online published on 4 April, 2015. Abstract The present essay draws attention to Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity and the formation of subjectivity through the process of becoming in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. By concentrating on Clarissa's androgynous and bisexual gender identity, Woolf not only challenges the penetrating assumptions about masculine/feminine distinction that institutes the heterosexualization of desire, but also uproots the fixation of gender identity. Butler believes that Gender as a social construct is produced by repeated performative acts and in order to renew and reformulate gender it is possible to change the existing attributes that are now strongly associated with the sexes. Clarissa, the main character in the novel, both submits to the heterosexual values and challenges this system by representing bisexual and androgynous traits. Top Keywords Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, androgyny, bisexuality, gender performativity. Top | |
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