Orlando
Virginia Woolf
- Discusses how display of affection changes in 19th century
- Anti-colonialism
- Meeting her favorite writers and poets as a woman and not finding them misogynistic and ordinary
- she needs to learn how to deter and swat men
- Gender being social construct
- revenge and jealousy and pain of losing a lover (as she was going through a heart ache while writing the book, her girlfriend at a time leaves her for another woman)
- clothings in relation to gender
- love as a woman
- the romans (“gypsies”) portrayed as endrogynous following racist tropes of western europeans and romanians
- Display of affection changing through time
- orlando is not shocked or frightened by her change, because she feels she’s the same