Homosexuality in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

             The main Focus of this research paper is on the homosexual identity and desire of two major characters, Clarissa Dalloway and her double in novel Septimus Warren Smith. Also a homosexual analysis on Doris Kilman and Elizabeth Dalloway would take place. .
             1.3. Methodology and Approach.
             "Gender Studies examines how gender is less determined by nature than it is by culture" (Guerin 236), and as Simone de Beauvoir said in The Second Sex: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one". This research paper will look at the Gender Studies and Queer Theory with main focus on Homosexual Study on Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, regarding that "homosexuality and heterosexuality may thus be seen as not two forms of identity but rather a range of overlapping behaviors (Guerin 237).
             1.4. Literature Review.
             For the theories concerning homosexual study, two main sources were used: 1. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, and 2. Literary Criticism, An Introduction to Theory and Practice. For the application of theory and homosexual analysis of characters, four main sources were used: 1. "A Feminist Perspective of Virginia Woolf's Selected Novels: Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse", 2. "The Averted Face: The Trauma of Marriage in Mrs. Dalloway", 3. "The Inscrutable Mrs. Dalloway" a research paper analyzing Mrs. Dalloway character. 4. "Power, Madness, and Sexuality in Mrs. Dalloway" a psychological study of Mrs. Dalloway. .
             Chapter 2.
             Theories concerning Homosexual Study.
             2.1. Gender Study.
             Virginia Woolf asserts in A Room of One's Own (1925) that women must reject the social construct of femaleness and establish and define their own identity. A decade later, Simon de Beauvoir declares in The Second Sex (1949) that women must reject that they are the Other, an object defined and interpreted by men. Two decades later, Kate Millet writes in Sexual Politics (1969) that a female is born, but a woman is created.