Writing Academic Texts Differently

Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing

Nina Lykke

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415502252
• eBook ISBN: 9781317817246
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

Core editorial group: Dr. Kathy Davis (Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht, The Netherlands), Professor Jeff Hearn (managing editor; Örebro University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK), Professor Anna G. Jónasdóttir (Örebro University, Sweden), Professor Nina Lykke (managing editor; Linköping University, Sweden), Professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Syracuse University, USA), Professor Elżbieta H. Oleksy (University of Łódź, Poland), Dr. Andrea Petö (Central European University, Hungary), Professor Ann Phoenix (Institute of Education, University of London, UK)

Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality is committed to the development of new feminist and profeminist perspectives on changing gender relations, with special attention to:

• 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.

1. Feminist Studies
   A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing
   Nina Lykke
2. Women, Civil Society and the Geopolitics of Democratization
   Denise M. Horn
3. Sexuality, Gender and Power
   Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives
   Edited by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Valerie Bryson and Kathleen B. Jones
4. The Limits of Gendered Citizenship
   Contexts and Complexities
   Edited by Elżbieta H. Oleksy, Jeff Hearn and Dorota Golańska
5. Theories and Methodologies in Postgraduate Feminist Research
   Researching Differently
   Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Gabriele Griffin and Nina Lykke
6. Making Gender, Making War
   Violence, Military and Peacekeeping Practices
   Edited by Annica Kronsell and Erika Svedberg
7. Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies
   Edited by Mona Livholts
8. Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures
   Passionate Play
   Jenny Sundén and Malin Sveningsson
9. Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice
   Chris Beasley, Heather Brook and Mary Holmes
10. Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions
    The Intimate Economy of Tango
    Maria Törnqvist
11. Imagining Masculinities
    Spatial and Temporal Representation and Visual Culture
    Katarzyna Kosmala
12. Rethinking Transnational Men
    Beyond, Between and Within Nations
    Edited by Jeff Hearn, Marina Blagojević and Katherine Harrison
13. Being a Man in a Transnational World
    The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration
    Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
14. Love
    A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
    Edited by Anna G. Jónasdóttir and Ann Ferguson
15. The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice
    Transforming Subjectivities and New Forms of Resistance
    Edited by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Bob Pease
16. Writing Academic Texts Differently
    Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing
    Edited by Nina Lykke

Writing Academic Texts Differently

Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing

Edited by Nina Lykke

In collaboration with Anne Brewster, Kathy Davis, Redi Koobak, Sissel Lie and Andrea Petö;

First published 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Writing academic texts differently : intersectional feminist methodologies

and the playful art of writing / edited by Nina Lykke.

pages cm. — (Routledge advances in feminist studies and

intersectionality ; 16)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Feminism—Authorship. 2. Women authors. 3. Feminism and

literature. 4. Creative writing. 5. Academic writing. I. Lykke, Nina,

editor of compilation.

PN471.W755 2014

808.02082—dc23

2014007062

ISBN: 978-0-415-50225-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-81856-6 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315818566

Typeset in Sabon

by Apex CoVantage, LLC

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 ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of 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
• PART TWO Learning to Write Differently
• Postscripts
• Contributors
• Index