Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2002. Vol. 8. Eger Journal of American Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 28)

Studies - Enikő Bollobás: (De-) Gendering and (De-) Sexualizing Famale Subjectivities: Woman-Hating and Its Revisions in Literature and Painting

performing all kinds of roles and constructing all kinds of subjectivities. Manufacturing the Self the series title insists: these are my favorite pieces, where the "body self' is being created at the crossroads of the anatomical atlas and adolescent curiosity, of science and erotics. Knowledge and desire compete here for the construction of the body

—which ultimately can be possessed by no one else but the woman herself. The best part of Droznik

—as well as of the female writers I discussed previously

—is their playfulness, irony, satirical celebration

—the way utter seriousness in generated by selfduplication, self-abandon, self-pleasure, self-love

—coupled with the willingness and courage not to take oneself seriously. WORKS CITED Barnes. Djuna. Nightwood. New York: New Directions, 1937/1961 Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank. Paris, 1900-1940. U of Texas P, 1986. Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter. On the Discursive Limits of "Sex. " New York: Routledge, 1993. Cather, Willa. "The Novel Démeublé." The Theory of the American Novel. Ed. George Perkins. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. 283-287. Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918/1995. " DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. "Romantic Thralldom and 'Subtle Geneologies' in H.D." Writing Beyond the Ending. Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers. Indiana UP, 1985.66-83. Eliot, T. S. "Introduction." Nightwood. New York: New Directions, 1937/1961. xi-xvi. Fetterley, Judith. "Reading about Reading: 'A Jury of Her Peers,' 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' and 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'" Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, 120