Mind vs. Body and Society : Androgynous Self-Perception and Social Preconceptions of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

This essay argues that Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) suggests that self-perception is not tied to sex and gender because of the difference in the protagonist’s perceptions of his/her gender and sex and the society’s perceptions of the protagonist’s gender and sex. In the essay, a distinction betwe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eriksson, Lina
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur 2014
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-31844