Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway from gender perspectives

Abstract EN

During the Victorian era, women did not have rights neither to work nor to vote, they were only addressed to be mothers and wives.

Virginia Woolf experienced this repression in that era.

Thus, she tackled the issue in her novel Mrs.

Dalloway where she envisions the city of London from a feminist perspective to unveil the oppression of women by introducing different characters, situations and events.

This study aims at exploring feminism, gender roles and stereotypes in the novel and to survey women's representation and how Woolf sees the identity of women at that time.

The different female characters like Sally, Clarissa, Miss Kilman and Elezabeth are used to declare that gender roles and social attitudes can be changeable and that women and men are not necessary different and feminine features are not limited to females only and vice versa.