To be or not to be: La ansiedad de la androginia en Virginia Wolf

Abstract

This paper highlights the insights Virginia Woolf pioneered. Her work not only challenged gender stereotypes but the author’s vindication of androgyny offered a way to destabilise delimiting depictions of both the feminine and the masculine. The literary creativity of Woolf presaged the feminist, including its postmodern version, questioning of conventional concepts of subjectivity. The work of Woolf, especially Orlando and The Waves, allows us to address the problematic of so-called «identity politics».