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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.

Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- Thematology --- Lessing, Doris --- Carter, Angela --- Jones, Gayl --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist fiction, English --- Gender identity in literature. --- Psychological fiction, English --- Self in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Gender identity in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Self in literature --- History and criticism --- Lessing, Doris May, --- Carter, Angela, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature --- Women authors&delete& --- Lessing, Doris, --- Lesing, Dorisŭ, --- Лессинг, Дорис, --- לסינג, דוריס, --- Tayler, Doris May, --- Somers, Jane, --- Stalker, Angela Olive, --- Carter, Angela Olive, --- Carter, Angela Olive Stalker, --- Stalker, Angela Olive --- Carter, Angela Olive --- Carter, Angela Olive Stalker --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Psychological fiction, English - History and criticism --- Feminist fiction, English - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - History - 20th century --- Women and literature - History - 20th century --- Lessing, Doris, - 1919-2013 - Criticism and interpretation --- Carter, Angela, - 1940- - Criticism and interpretation. --- Jones, Gayl - Criticism and interpretation --- Lessing, Doris, - 1919-2013 --- Carter, Angela, - 1940 --- -Jones, Gayl