Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies by Mona Livholts

By Mona Livholts

Contemporary demanding situations for looking new wisdom in feminist reviews are in detail intertwined with methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality in altering worldwide contexts. Written by means of the various best students of their fields, this edited assortment makes a speciality of the emergence of writing methodologies in feminist reports and their implications for the research of energy and alter.

The booklet explores the various crucial politics, principles, and dimensions of strength that form and situation wisdom, even as it elaborates serious, embodied, reflective and positioned writing practices. via bringing jointly numerous multi/transdisciplinary contributions in one assortment, the anthology bargains a well timed and intellectually stimulating contribution that offers with how new sorts of writing examine can give a contribution to advertise fruitful research of inequality and gear family members concerning gender, racialisation, ethnicity, category and heteronormativity and their intersections. it's also the complicated courting among writer, textual content and audiences.

The meant viewers is postgraduates, researchers and lecturers inside feminist and intersectionality reviews throughout disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. The e-book is superb as literature in feminist stories classes and priceless assistance for educating writing classes and workshops.

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Seen from a critical perspective, it is obvious that the presupposition of the cognitive process of writing being similar for each individual, regardless of lived experiences, must be a delusion, particularly if set against the post-structuralist insight of the situatedness of all knowledge. The understanding of epistemological progression in the neutral terms of ‘sorting’ and ‘structuring’, further underlines the limitations of this model—not only, but certainly more acutely pronounced, when confronted with a critical tradition like feminist theory.

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