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.

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.

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

Contemporary Untimely Post/Academic Writings—Transforming the Shape of Knowledge in Feminist Studies

part I|43 pages

Politics, Ideas, Thinkers

chapter 1|14 pages

Leaks and Leftovers

Reflections on the Practice and Politics of Style in Feminist Academic Writing

chapter 3|13 pages

Masquerades of Love

Biographical and Autobiographical Explorations of Self-Invention with/in Hannah Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen

part II|61 pages

Privilege, Power and Subjugated Knowledge

chapter 4|12 pages

Interrogating Privileged Subjectivities

Reflections on Writing Personal Accounts of Privilege

chapter 6|15 pages

Colonialism and the Emergence of Hope

The Use of Creative Non-Fiction to Reflect on a Society in Transformation

chapter 7|17 pages

Writing against Postcolonial Imaginations

The White Race for a Weakening Patriarchy

part III|68 pages

Imaginative and Poetic Spaces, Readers, and Audiences

chapter 8|15 pages

A Performative Mode of Writing Place

Out and About the Rosenlund Park, Stockholm, 2008–2010

chapter 9|18 pages

The Road to Writing

An Ethno(Bio)Graphic Memoir

chapter 10|12 pages

Sensitive Studies, Sensitive Writings

Poetic Tales of Sexuality in Sports

chapter 12|15 pages

Writing as Intimate Friends …

How Does Writing Profeminist Research Become Methodologically Challenging?