Synopses & Reviews
Writing otherwise is a collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression. Leading figures in their field, such as Marianne Hirsch, Lynne Pearce, Griselda Pollock, Carol Smart, Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff, all risk new ways of writing about themselves and their subjects.
Aimed at both general and academic readers interested in how scholarly writing might be more innovative and creative, this collection introduces the personal, the poetic and the experimental into the frame of cultural criticism. This collection of essays is highly interdisciplinary and contributes to debates in sociology, history, anthropology, art history, cultural and media studies and gender studies.
Review
"The essays in
Writing Otherwise provide indispensable models for academics attempting to combine theoretical savvy with readable, inventive prose." - Susan Gubar, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Indiana University, writes the 'Living with Cancer' blog in The New York Times
"...This exciting and innovative collection presses up against the limits of what scholarship can be and its contributors are not afraid to pause where necessary to explore and describe those limits..." - Ann Cvetkovich, Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
"In this fascinating collection diverse scholars introduce readers to the imaginative resources liberated by writing somewhat aslant of conventional disciplinary guidelines. The essays highlight intense personal engagements, present intriguing visual imagery or in other ways depict the poetic and elusive resonance of emotions. It is reassuring and delightful to read these lucid essays, confirming once more the potential for working creatively in academia, especially when choosing to trouble its traditional styles and frameworks. " - Lynne Segal, author of Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing
Synopsis
A collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression.
About the Author
Jackie Stacey is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester.
Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of Manchester.
Table of Contents
1. Writing Otherwise; Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff
PART I: AFFECTS
2. Writing From the Heart; Griselda Pollock
3. Contact; Mary Cappello:
4. On Being Open to Others: Cosmopolitanism and the Psychoanalysis of Groups; Jackie Stacey
5. Touching Lives: Writing the Sociological and the Personal; Carol Smart
PART II: DISPLACEMENTS
6. Atlantic Moves; Janet Wolff
7. Autopia: In Search of What We're Thinking When We're Driving; Lynne Pearce
8. Cheap Chickens and Ethical Eggs: The Place of an English Village in the World; Vron Ware
9. If the Shoe Fits: Appropriating Identity?; Brenda Cooper
Dust and Mangoes: Plain Tales and Hill Stations; Margaret Beetham
PART III: POETICS
10. Bliss (Opera's Untenable Pleasures); Monica B. Pearl
11. Graphic to Surface: Textual Effects and Criticism; Judy Kendall
12. First Person, Plural: Notes on Voice and Collaboration; Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer