Clothing reinforces gender roles culturally assigned to men and women by emphasizing individuals? biological sex and encouraging them to behave in specific ways based on their sex. However, individuals can manipulate their clothing to challenge the gender roles assigned to them. The primary characters in Wilkie Collins?s The Woman in White and Virginia Woolf?s Orlando wear gender-deviant clothing to point out the constructed nature of gender and to assert their own identities independent of specific gender roles.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NCSU/oai:NCSU:etd-07082005-094556 |
| Date | 08 July 2005 |
| Creators | Jones, Joanna Medlin |
| Contributors | Sharon Setzer, Leila May, Laura Severin |
| Publisher | NCSU |
| Source Sets | North Carolina State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07082005-094556/ |
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