Resistiendo el encierro: la hegemonía de género y el discurso médico en disputa en Mrs Dalloway

Abstract

This article is centered on the different ways in which Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs Dalloway questions and exposes two devicesthat control the binary hierarchical order of “male/female” and “health/disease”:heteronormativity and the medical discourse. Moreover, it is proposed that those devices use confinement to operate and manifest themselves. The analysis focuses on two research axes: on the one hand, it is possible to observe how the devices aforementioned work within the private space, and on the other hand, how these are overflown in the urban space. In order to convey the analysis, the ideas of Judith Butler exposed in Gender Trouble and Georges Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological were taken into consideration.