ABSTRACT
Robinson then reads the collection I Am a Woman Worker as an act of community indistinguishable from ‘self-actualization’.2
In a 1985 essay on imperialism in Jane Eyre that attempts to wrench feminists from the mesmerizing focus of Jane’s subjectivity, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak follows Elizabeth Fox-Genovese’s characterization of feminism in the West as female access to individualism: ‘the battle for female individualism plays itself out within the larger theater of the establishment of meritocratic individualism, indexed in the aesthetic field by the ideology of “the creative imagination”.’3
