A discussion of the representation of gender in Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse against the background of Sherry Ortner's theory

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,8, University College Cork, language: English, abstract: Virginia Woolf’s novel 'To the Lighthouse' was first published in 1927, and like the author’s following books, it was facing towards modernity. Woolf picked out many central themes of modernism, such as time, new narrative techniques and th...