Writing Feminist Autoethnography: In Love with Theory, Words, and the Language of Women Writers Mackinlay Elizabeth
Writing Feminist Autoethnography explores the personal-is-political relationship between autoethnography and feminist theory and practice.Each chapter introduces the lives and works of a range of…
Specifikacia Writing Feminist Autoethnography: In Love with Theory, Words, and the Language of Women Writers Mackinlay Elizabeth
Writing Feminist Autoethnography explores the personal-is-political relationship between autoethnography and feminist theory and practice.Each chapter introduces the lives and works of a range of feminist thinkers and writers, and considers the ways in which their thinking and writing might come to be in relation with our own personal-is-political thinking, and writing work as feminist autoethnographers. The book begins with an acknowledgement of the author's positionality as a white-settler-colonial-woman in relation with Yanyuwa, Garrwa, Mara and Kudanji Aboriginal women. This positionality has continued to resonate deeply with the responses and sensibilities the author holds as a feminist autoethnographer to move beyond coloniality. She explores the writing of Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Helene Cixous, Kathleen Stewart, bell hooks, and Ruth