As well as offering a broad analysis, this lecture suggests how Toril Moi’s insights in Chapter 1 of Sexual/Textual Politics (London: Methuen, 1985) can be applied to Virginia Woolf’s novel Between the Acts (Worlds Classics Paperback. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). The title of Moi’s chapter, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is taken from a play by Edward Albee. I hope that the following discussion will encourage you to approach Between the Acts with confidence, so that in the end we can answer Moi’s question by affirming that no one is afraid of Virginia Woolf.  (more…)