一九七○年代女性主義的興起，帶動了女性傳記的研究風潮　有別於傳統以男性為中心的傳記論述

The appearance of the poetics of women's autobiography and the emergence offeminist criticism in the 1970s caused significant change and revision in the reading of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. The critical ferment brought about by the feminist critique of androcentric paradigms ofself-representation affords us an uprecedented opportunity to re-read Jane Eyre from a perspective that insists on the significance of gender in an autobiographical process and that challenges the conflation of male subjectivity with human identity. Drawingmainly on feminist theories proposed by S. Robowtham, S. Smith, N. Chodorow, T.Moi, and Friedman, and to a lesser extent, Bakhtin and Foucault, this thesis argues that Jane's transgression of traditional binary construct of gender rolesand her defiance of fixed gendered identity correspond to the post-structuralist rejection of the traditional conception of self as unitary and coherent. The construction of Jane's identity lies first in her deconstruction of patriarchal gender ideology and also in her appropriation of patriarchal strategy of dominance. As a woman, Jane's construction of identity is unavoidabley complicated by the power of those culturally precribed norms of female subjectivity. She must suspend herself between corporate identity and female individuality. Jane's rejection to be pinned down by patriarchy is evidenced inthe conflicts and constant change of her positions and her acquisition of the power of language indicates the possibility of female self-representation, thoughJane, like every social being, cannot escape the manipulation of patriarchalgender ideology.