Descrição
this text probes into the legacy of a central dualism of western culture –nature vs. culture – to examine how the tropo of the “natural woman” constructed in themodern period bears upon the narrative logics of two representative European novels ofthe XIX century: Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Leon Tolstoi’s AnaKarenina. Then, it focuses on some scenes of Kate Chopin´s The awakening andVirgínia Woolf`s To the lighthouse to show to what extent the representation of thefemale characters’ experience of corporeality des-figure the dualisms upon whichtraditional cultural gender norms are predicated and, therefore, subvert the inscription ofthe body as the locus of the reproduction of femininity.
