Critical Autoethnography and Écriture Feminine

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The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Hélène Cixous<i>écriture feminine</i> and work<i>Three steps on the ladder of writing</i>. Critical autoethnography shares a reciprocal, and inter-animating relationship with Hélène Cixous écriture feminine (feminine writing), and in this collection authors explore that inter-animation by explicitly engaging with<i>Three steps on the ladder of writing</i>.<i>Three steps</i> is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving reflection on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for writing: The School of the Deadthe notion that something or someone must die in order for good writing to be born; The School of Dreamsthe crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration and output; and The School of Rootsthe importance of depth in the 'nether realms' in all aspects of writing. Topics covered include: ways Cixous work can address the need for loss and reparation in writing critical autoethnography, how Cixous writing makes our body speak through concepts of birth and the body in, through and of critical autoethnography, whether writing in this way recast and reform prevailing orders of domination and oppression, and how Cixous writing around the ethics of loving and giving translates into response-able and non-violent forms of critical autoethnography in relation to otherness and difference. In this collection, we invite you to Let us go to the school of [critical autoethnographic] writing (Cixous, 1993, p. 3) with the work of Hélène Cixous, and speak in a different way and through a different medium of academic language, in an approach that reveals the tensions, the paradoxes, the pains and the pleasures of writing with critical autoethnography in the contemporary university.

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<div><p>Elizabeth Mackinlay is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University, Gold Coast (Australia). She has experience in Indigenous education, music ethnography and autoethnography, qualitative research and writing, and feminist issues.</p></div><div>Renée Mickelburgh (PhD) is a feminist communications scholar whose research examines the way Australian women communicate gender justice and environmental issues through digital storytelling. With a background in journalism and communications, Renée has a keen interest in understanding the ways digital storytelling is both a communication tool for gender and environmental justice, and how it creates community, compassion, and connection.</div>

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