Title: Emergent writing methodologies in feminist studies /
Authors: Livholts, Mona
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Feminism; Feminism and literature.; Women and literature.
Abstract: "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.
Contents: Introduction: Contemporary untimely post/academic writings : transforming the shape of knowledge in feminist studies / Mona Livholts -- Leaks and leftovers : reflections on the practice and politics of style in feminist academic writing / Annelie Bränström Öhman -- Medusa's laughter and the hows and whys of writing according to Hélène Cixous / Sissel Lie -- Masquerades of love : biographical and autobiographical explorations of self-invention with/in Hannah Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen / Kathleen B. Jones -- Interrogating privileged subjectivities : reflections on writing personal accounts of privilege / Bob Pease -- Political terrains of writing belonging, memory and homeland / Barzoo Eliassi -- Colonialism and the emergence of hope : the use of creative non-fiction to reflect on a society in transformation / James Arvanitakis -- Writing against postcolonial imaginations : the white race for a weakening patriarchy / Jessica H. Jönsson -- A performative mode of writing place : out and about the Rosenlund Park, Stockholm, 2008-2010 / Katja Grillner -- The road to writing : an ethno(bio)graphic memoir / Ulrika Dahl -- Sensitive studies, sensitive writings : poetic tales of sexuality in sports / Heidi Eng -- Figurative fragments of a politics of location in desire / Ulrika Dahl and Hanna Hallgren -- Writing as intimate friends-- : how does writing profeminist research become methodologically challenging? / Jeff Hearn.