Writing Academic Texts Differently
Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing
Nina Lykke, Nina Lykke
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Writing Academic Texts Differently
Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing
Nina Lykke, Nina Lykke
About This Book
This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality. How does such a frame change academic writing? How does it make it pertinent to explore new synergies between academic and creative writing? In answer to these questions, the book offers theories, methodologies, political and ethical considerations, as well as reflections on writing strategies. Suggestions for writing exercises, developed against the background of the contributors' individual and joint teaching practices, will inspire readers to engage in alternative writing practices themselves.
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- Intersections between gender and power differentials based on age, class, dis/abilities, ethnicity, nationality, racialisation, sexuality, violence, and other social divisions.
- Intersections of societal dimensions and processes of continuity and change: culture, economy, generativity, polity, sexuality, science and technology.
- Embodiment: Intersections of discourse and materiality, and of sex and gender.
- Transdisciplinarity: intersections of humanities, social sciences, medical, technical and natural sciences.
- Intersections of different branches of feminist theorizing, including: historical materialist feminisms, postcolonial and anti-racist feminisms, radical feminisms, sexual difference feminisms, queerfeminisms, cyberfeminisms, posthuman feminisms, critical studies on men and masculinities.
- A critical analysis of the travelling of ideas, theories and concepts.
- A politics of location, reflexivity and transnational contextualising that reflects the basis of the Series framed within European diversity and transnational power relations.
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Writing Academic Texts Differently
Contents
- Exercises
- Note on Terminology
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Introduction NINA LYKKE, ANNE BREWSTER, KATHY DAVIS, REDI KOOBAK, SISSEL LIE AND ANDREA PETÖ
- PART ONE The Politics of Writing Differently
- 1 Intersectionality as Critical Methodology KATHY DAVIS
- 2 Passionate ...