Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies

by Livholts; Mona

• ISBN13: 9780415897440
• ISBN10: 0415897440
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Contemporary challenges for seeking new knowledge in feminist studies are intimately intertwined with methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality in changing global contexts. Written by some of the leading scholars in their fields, this edited collection focuses on the emergence of writing methodologies in feminist studies and their implications for the study of power and change. The book explores some of the central politics, ideas, and dimensions of power that shape and condition knowledge, at the same time as it elaborates critical, embodied, reflective and situated writing practices. By bringing together a variety of multi/transdisciplinary contributions in a single collection, the anthology offers a timely and intellectually stimulating contribution that deals with how new forms of writing research can contribute to promote fruitful analysis of inequality and power relations related to gender, racialisation, ethnicity, class and heteronormativity and their intersections. It also includes the complex relationship between author, text and audiences. The intended audience is postgraduates, researchers and academics within feminist and intersectionality studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The book is excellent as literature in feminist studies courses and helpful guidance for teaching writing sessions and workshops.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: Contemporary Untimely Post/Academic Writings-Transforming the Shape of Knowledge in Feminist Studies	p. 1
Politics, Ideas, Thinkers
Leaks and Leftovers: Reflections on the Practice and Politics of Style in Feminist Academic Writing	p. 27
Medusa's Laughter and the Hows and Whys of Writing According to Hélène Cixous	p. 41
Masquerades of Love: Biographical and Autobiographical Explorations of Self-Invention with/in Hannah Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen	p. 55
Privilege, Power and Subjugated Knowledge
Interrogating Privileged Subjectivities: Reflections on Writing Personal Accounts of Privilege	p. 71
Political Terrains of Writing Belonging, Memory and Homeland	p. 83
Colonialism and the Emergence of Hope: The Use of Creative Non-Fiction to Reflect on a Society in Transformation	p. 98
Writing against Postcolonial Imaginations: The White Race for a Weakening Patriarchy	p. 113
Imaginative and Poetic Spaces, Readers, and Audiences
A Performative Mode of Writing Place: Out and About the Rosenlund Park, Stockholm, 2008-2010	p. 133
The Road to Writing: An Ethno(Bio)Graphic Memoir	p. 148
Sensitive Studies, Sensitive Writings: Poetic Tales of Sexuality in Sports	p. 166
Figurative Fragments of a Politics of Location in Desire	p. 178
Writing as Intimate Friends … How Does Writing Profeminist Research Become Methodologically Challenging?	p. 184
Contributors	p. 199
Index	p. 205
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