Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415719759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 210 str.

Mona Livholts

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Contemporary Untimely Post/Academic Writings: Transforming the Shape of Knowledge in Feminist Studies  Mona Livholts  Part 1: Politics, Ideas, Thinkers  1. Leaks and Leftovers: Reflections on the Practice and Politics of Style in Feminist Academic Writing  Annelie Bränström Öhman  2. Medusa’s Laughter and the Hows and Whys of Writing According to Hélène Cixous  Sissel Lie  3. Masquerades of Love: Biographical and Autobiographical Explorations of Self-Invention with/in Hannah Arendt’s Rahel Varnhagen  Kathleen B. Jones  Part 2: Privilege, Power and Subjugated Knowledge  4. Interrogating Privileged Subjectivities: Reflections on Writing Personal Accounts of Privilege  Bob Pease  5. Political Terrains of Writing Belonging, Memory and Homeland  Barzoo Eliassi  6. Colonialism and the Emergence of Hope: The Use of Creative Non-Fiction to Reflect on a Society in Transformation  James Arvanitakis  7. Writing Against Postcolonial Imaginations: The White Race for a Weakening Patriarchy  Jessica H. Jönsson  Part 3: Imaginative and Poetic Spaces, Readers and Audiences  8. A Performative Mode of Writing Place: Out and About the Rosenlund Park, Stockholm, 2008-2010  Katja Grillner  9. The Road to Writing: An Ethno(Bio)Graphic Memoir  Ulrika Dahl  10. Sensitive Studies, Sensitive Writings: Poetic Tales of Sexuality in Sports  Heidi Eng  11. Figurative Fragments of a Politics of Location in Desire  Ulrika Dahl and Hanna Hallgren  12. Writing as Intimate Friends … How Does Writing Profeminist Research Become Methodologically Challenging?  Jeff Hearn

O autorze

Mona Livholts is Associate Professor of Social Work and Research Fellow of Social Work with an orientation towards gender at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.