TY - BOOK ID - 1586827 TI - Engendering the subject : gender and self-representation in contemporary women's fiction PY - 1991 SN - 0791407284 0791407276 9780791407271 9780791407288 PB - Albany (N.Y.) : State university of New York press, DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Sociology of literature KW - Thematology KW - Lessing, Doris KW - Carter, Angela KW - Jones, Gayl KW - English fiction KW - Feminism and literature KW - Feminist fiction, English KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - Psychological fiction, English KW - Self in literature. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Self in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Lessing, Doris May, KW - Carter, Angela, KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - English literature KW - Women authors&delete& KW - Lessing, Doris, KW - Lesing, Dorisŭ, KW - Лессинг, Дорис, KW - לסינג, דוריס, KW - Tayler, Doris May, KW - Somers, Jane, KW - Stalker, Angela Olive, KW - Carter, Angela Olive, KW - Carter, Angela Olive Stalker, KW - Stalker, Angela Olive KW - Carter, Angela Olive KW - Carter, Angela Olive Stalker KW - English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism KW - Psychological fiction, English - History and criticism KW - Feminist fiction, English - History and criticism KW - Feminism and literature - History - 20th century KW - Women and literature - History - 20th century KW - Lessing, Doris, - 1919-2013 - Criticism and interpretation KW - Carter, Angela, - 1940- - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Jones, Gayl - Criticism and interpretation KW - Lessing, Doris, - 1919-2013 KW - Carter, Angela, - 1940 KW - -Jones, Gayl UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1586827 AB - Robinson sets up a dialogue between feminist critical theory and contemporary women's fiction in order to argue for a new way of reading the specificity of women's writing. Through theoretically informed readings of novels by Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, and Gayl Jones, the author argues that female subjectivity is engendered in discourse through the woman writer's strategic engagement in representational systems that rely on a singular figure of Woman for coherence. Through this engagement, women's self-representation emerges as a process through which women take up multiple and contradictory positions in relation to different hegemonic discursive systems, and through which they engender themselves as subjects. Finally, Engendering the Subject suggests how women's fiction can provide a model for a feminist practice of reading that would simultaneously work against the historical containment of Woman, and for the empowerment of women as subjects of cultural practices. ER -