%0 Journal Article
%T A Study of Gender Performativity in Virginia Woolf¡¯s Orlando: A Mocking Biography
%A Mahboubeh Moslehi
%A Nozar Niazi
%J -
%D 2016
%R https://doi.org/10.9744/kata.18.1.1-7
%X Abstract ABSTRACT The present paper aims at concentrating on Judith Butler¡¯s theory of gender as performance and how Virginia Woolf challenges the assumptions of heterosexuality in Virginia Woolf¡¯s Orlando(1992). Woolf rebels against the traditional view of gender as two separate categories by presenting Orlando as an androgynous and bisexual character. Orlando¡¯s transformation from male to female and exhibition of the characteristics of both feminity and masculinity expose how gender norms are socially instituted. Woolf portrays Orlando¡¯s attraction to both men and women. He/she loves Sasha regardless of what changes her body undergoes, but he/she marries Shelmerdine because he/she is bisexual. Woolf also shows clothing as signifiers of the social construction of gender and how characters flout this convention by using cross dressing. Keywords: Virginia Woolf, Orlando, androgyny, bisexuality, gender performativit
%K Virginia Woolf
%K Orlando
%K androgyny
%K bisexuality
%K gender performativity
%U http://kata.petra.ac.id/index.php/ing/article/view/18938