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This insightful volume extends feminist critical studies of twentieth-century women writers as it examines the complex ways female subjectivity experiences and is shaped by gender and power in literary texts. Because of the ways ambivalence and contradiction operate in the works of Woolf, Barnes, and Duras, to read them is to able to interrogate and thus more fully understand the ways our own subjectivity are constructed in relation to complex configurations of desire, loss, sexuality, power, vulnerability, and violence. Kaivola has worked out a strikingly original means of reading difference-

Barnes, Djuna -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Duras, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. --- Women and literature -- History -- 20th century. --- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.

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Women and literature --- History --- Moore, Marianne, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- -History --- -Moore, Marianne --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Moore, Marianne Craig, --- Moore, Marianne --- Criticism and interpretation --- Interviews --- Technique --- Translations --- Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 - Correspondence --- Women and literature - - History - - 20th century - United States --- -Moore, Marianne - - Criticism and interpretation --- -Women and literature

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Fiction --- Literature --- anno 1970-1979 --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- First person narrative --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- History --- 82:396 --- 82-94 --- -Fiction --- -First person narrative --- Narrative, First person --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Point of view (Literature) --- Persona (Literature) --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Literatuur en feminisme --- Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- -History and criticism --- Technique --- Philosophy --- First person narrative. --- History and criticism. --- 82-94 Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Women authors&delete& --- Fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - History - 20th century --- Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism --- Women and literature - History - 20th century

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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

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This provocative, lively book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the twentieth century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women's novels alongside work by feminist theorists. Each chapter situates a small number of theoretical texts in their intellectual context and then links them with a widely taught novel to produce fresh interpretations. The novels and theorists represent examples of extremely significant, but also pedagogically useful feminist writing this century.

American fiction --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist fiction --- French fiction --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Philosophical anthropology --- Sexology --- Human rights --- Depth psychology --- Fiction --- Community organization --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- French literature --- English literature --- American literature --- Literature --- Women authors&delete& --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - History - 20th century --- American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- French fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- French fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Women and literature - History - 20th century --- Feminist fiction - History and criticism --- Feminism --- Homosexuality --- Female homosexuality --- Comparative literature --- Marxism --- Postmodernism --- Psychoanalysis --- Socialist feminism --- Theory --- Second feminist wave --- Black feminism --- Book --- Deconstruction --- First feminist wave