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Overview
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Women’s Studies Information
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Feminist Writing
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Villenas
Richardson (Bio presentation by Laura)
Hurtado
Cantu
Feminist Writing
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What do we think when we hear “academic
writing”? Scientific studies, data collection,
methods, etc.
Feminists have transformed scholarship by
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Using new forms of data because women are kept out
of public records (way of constructing history)
Asking different questions
Writing for larger community
Feminist Writing
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Access: Consider this for your final
question #1
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Who are we writing for?
What is the purpose of our work?
Are academics like Spivak and Butler doing
feminist writing? Are they using the master’s
tools
This ethnography called my
back: Sofia Villenas
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Examines anthropology as a field
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White, male, western
Defining different cultures as exotic, “other”,
irrational
Seeks to use personal discourse as a valid form of
anthropological writing
We must integrate the self in writing and
research.
Writing is a process by where we observe others
and discover more about ourselves
Skirting a Pleaded Text:
Laurel Richardson
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Challenges academia by challenging her own
social scientific writing
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Is ridiculed by her academic department because of
her autobiographical writing (is it sociology?)
Writing should connect to others and help us
progress as human beings
Autobiographical writing can be sociological and
beneficial to a wider audience
Autobiographical writing is a process that
documents the sociology of our everyday lives as
well as patterns within a larger community
Theory in the Flesh: Aida
Hurtado
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Deconstruction VS Reconstruction
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Deconstruction is limited = hopelessness
Reconstruction = Finding a space for your writing
Data-gathering:
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Traditional data gathering tools restrict what we write
about and how we examine it
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Measures not adapted for marginalized cultures in our
society
Hurtado challenges what we use as data
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Diaries, Journals, Poetry, Literature
Theory in the Flesh: Aida
Hurtado cont….
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De-academize theory to connect the
community to the academy
Theory of the flesh = who we are, where
we came from, our desires, goals and needs
(both of the author and the subject)
Canicula: Norma Cantu
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Blurs genres by writing creative non-fiction
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Autobioethnography
Writing is a process, like traveling through
your life to find moments that truly matter
and turning them into tales that other can
use as well
Looking towards the future…..
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Blogs as data?
Defining ourselves in our work
Redefining data, how we ask questions, etc
Third Wave Feminism