1. Homosexuality in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
... is not born a woman, one becomes one". For both feminists and gender critics, society portrays binary oppositions like masculine/feminine or straight/gay as natural categories, but as David Richter notes, "the rules have little to do with nature and everything to do with culture." The word homosexual has only a short history of one hundred years or so (it ... offered Clarissa the guardianship she required, and so as a consequence was rejected by her. Arguably, Richard has become such a guardian in his acceptance of the marriage that Clarissa has created, free of sexual desire (Eberly 6)...
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- Grade Level: High School