Writing Academic Texts Differently

Nina Lykke is Professor of Gender and Culture, Unit of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.

This co-authored volume explores multiple links between academic and creative writing practices and writing methodologies from feminist and intersectional perspectives. It discusses what it means for academic writing processes to consciously write in and from intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality.

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 Disidentifications as an Intersectional Writing Strategy Nina Lykke 3. Writing the Place from Which One Speaks Redi Koobak and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert 4. Whiteness and Affect: The Embodied Ethics of Relationality Anne Brewster 5. Feminist Crime Fiction as a Model for Writing History Differently Andrea Pet¿ Part Two: Learning to Write Differently 6. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: How I Came Across My Research Topic and What Happened Next Redi Koobak 7. The Infinite Resources for Writing Sissel Lie 8. From an Empty Head to a Finished Text: The Writing Process Sissel Lie 9. The Choreography of Writing an Introduction Nina Lykke 10. Politics of Gendered Remembering: Feminist Narratives of "Meaningful Objects" Andrea Petö 11. Making Theories Work Kathy Davis 12. Making Language Your Own: Brainstorming, Heteroglossia and Poetry Anne Brewster 13. Writing in Stuck Places Redi Koobak 14. Publish or Perish: How to Get Published in an International Journal Kathy Davis. Postscripts On (Not) Reading Deleuze in Cairns Susanne Gannon. Authors' Aphorisms: A Year of Writing...