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- Title
The woman writer's body: Multiplicity, neoliberalism, and feminist resistance.
- Authors
Quah, Sharon Ee Ling; Ridgway, Alexandra
- Abstract
What goes behind the scene of a woman writer's writing process? Beneath shiny finished writing products lies an arduous writing process often remain unseen to readers. The article makes visible two women writers' bodies and our embodied writing experiences through an intersectional feminist lens. Writer One is a Singapore‐born, ethnic Chinese, queer migrant woman academic residing in Australia with her long‐term partner. Writer Two is an England‐born, Australian‐British dual citizen, white heterosexual married mother of young twin children ready to kick start her academic career after her recent PhD conferment. Writer One with her fibromyalgic, traumatized, and othered bodies and Writer Two with her vulvodynia, mothering, and gendered bodies write themselves, their bodies and embodied writing experiences into existence in this article. Using autoethnographic accounts, they discuss how their multiple, chronically ill, and pained bodies influence their writing process and choice of writing topics. Specifically, they reveal how their bodies negotiate the tension between neoliberal demands imposed on their bodies and their feminist resistance efforts against constrictive forces in the knowledge production economy. Using this piece of writing as feminist resistance, they seek to reject dominant discourses, hold space, inscribe their own narratives, and call for collective feminist action with fellow women writers.
- Subjects
SINGAPORE; ENGLAND; WRITING processes; WOMEN authors; WOMEN'S writings; SEXUAL minority women; NEOLIBERALISM; FEMINISTS; MULTIPLICITY (Mathematics); CHRONICALLY ill
- Publication
Gender, Work & Organization, 2022, Vol 29, Issue 1, p44
- ISSN
0968-6673
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/gwao.12743