Engendering the Subject

Sally Robinson is Assistant Professor of English at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

"I like best the clear, direct, and unrelenting manner in which Robinson sets forth her argument. She writes lucidly and avoids jargon. As a result, the text is most enjoyable reading."Her basic approach takes us to the heart of some very pressing issues. By choosing to focus on the question of the subject position, Robinson elects an extremely significant and timely topic which is both important within current debates in feminist criticism and theory, and significant to broader critical and theoretical debates in the field today." — Elizabeth Meese, University of Alabama

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Engendering the Subject Feminist Theory and Identity Politics"Women's Writing" and Self-RepresentationToward a Contestatory Practice of Narrative 1. Repetition and Resistance in Doris Lessing's Children of Violence The Female Oedipus: Gender and the (De) Structuring of Martha's QuestA Theory for Martha: Gender and the Production of SubjectivityGendered Address and Martha's Self-Representation 2. Angela Carter and the Circus of Theory: Writing Woman and Women's Writing Derrida: The Affirmative Woman and the FeministIrigaray: Mimicry, Contradiction and the Subject of FeminismThe Anti-hero as Oedipus: Gender and the Postmodern NarrativeDifference as Spectacle: Deconstructing Mythologies of Gender 3. "We're all consequences of something" Cultural Mythologies of Gender and Race in the Novels of Gayl Jones Black Female Essence: Slavery and the Cultural Production of the Black WomanCorregidora: Black Female Subjectivity and the Politics of HeterosexualityEva's Man: Excess as Subversion Epilogue On Representation and Self-Representation Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index