Women and Interruption in Between the Acts

Abstract

In the work of Virginia Woolf space and gender are concepts that are inextricably bound together. Space provides a vehicle for questions about gender, about the inclusion of one sex and the exclusion of the other, and about the access of each to power. Spatial configurations, represented spaces, such as houses and libraries, and textual spaces, such as parentheses and ellipses, suggest the capacity of space to divide along gender lines. They also constitute the means to overcome that same division.