Man, Cyborg, Androgyne, Orlando
Magdalena Radkowska
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.plInstitute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Abstract
Radkowska agrues that Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the history of an androgyne, or a creature defying a division into genders and combining male and female characteristics. Radkowska says the thesis that gender is a socially and culturally-induced outer construct is well demonstrated in the book-inspired film. Putting on attire, we put on a social identity. Orlando does not change through a biological sex reversal but only after it begins to assume female poses, gestures and behaviour patterns, or after it puts on a dress and mask indicating the role it plays; that of a woman. To Orlando, gnder is important inasmuch as it imposes some socially-accepted behaviour patterns, Radkowska states. Orlando has no need to construct an own identity in accordance with the category.
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Virginia Woolf, androgyne, genderReferences
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Magdalena Radkowskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Absolwentka etnologii i antropologii kulturowej na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, doktorantka I roku w Szkole Nauk Społecznych przy IFiS PAN.
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