Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies

Mona Livholts is Professor of Social Work in the Department of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.

"Powerful, passionate, analytical Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies locates itself at the crossroads between social science and the humanities, between the understanding, the writing and the doing of the social, between self and society. A path-breaking contribution to methodological debates that cautiously explores the politics of writing, the art of dialogue and the difficult but vital scholarly connections between writing, analysis and the emergence of alternative notions of social justice." - Diana Mulinari, Professor in Gender Studies and Sociology, Centre for Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden."I’ve waited a long time for a book as clear and powerful as this to be written: its quiet confidence affirms the achievements of gender studies in recent years and the contribution feminism has made across the disciplines: challenging procedural norms and questioning the limits of knowledge by inventing relational methodologies and hybrid genres. All these exciting qualities are to be found in this elegant collection of essays, where conceptual and critical rigor is blended with emotion – surprising, affecting, touching … It is so hard to discuss issues of intellectual process in ways that engage and excite, and raise further possibilities for imagining yet new approaches, yet this is exactly what these marvelous essays do, speaking in multiple voices across the spectrum of feminist academic writing today."- Jane Rendell, Professor in Architecture and Art, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, UK.

• 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