Elizabeth Mackinlay is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia, where she teaches Research Methods, Gender Studies and Arts Education. She has worked in higher education for over 25 years as a feminist academic, activist and autoethnographer.

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. In acknowledgement: Writing in relationality with Yanyuwa, Garrwa, Mara and Kudanji women
2. Becoming a broken-hearted feminist autoethnographer with Ruth Behar
3. A-way to love: Feminist autoethnographic lessons from bell hooks
4. Becoming feminist autoethnography: Becoming some-thing with Kathleen Stewart
5. Hush, the ethics of paying attention: Wording and worlding feminist autoethnography with Simone Weil
6. What kind of world do you want to word? Crafting feminist autoethnography with Ursula K. Le Guin
7. Writing feminist autoethnography with Simone de Beauvoir: Fourteen villanelles
8. With love from I-to-you, Hélène Cixous: A play script

Writing Feminist Autoethnography explores the personal-is-political relationship between autoethnography and feminist theory and practice.
Each chapter introduces the lives and works of a range of feminist thinkers and writers and considers the ways in which their thinking and writing might come to be in relation with our own personal-is-political thinking and writing work as feminist autoethnographers. The book begins with an acknowledgement of the author's positionality as a white-settler-colonial-woman in relation with Yanyuwa, Garrwa, Mara and Kudanji Aboriginal women. This positionality has continued to resonate deeply with the responses and sensibilities the author holds as a feminist autoethnographer to move beyond coloniality. She explores the writing of Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Cixous, Kathleen Stewart, bell hooks and Ruth Behar, with critical affect to embrace, embody and engage with feminist thinking, wondering and feeling. The book creatively and performatively explores what it means to live a feminist life as an autoethnographer.
This book will define and conceptualize feminist autoethnography for all qualitative researchers, especially those interested in critical autoethnography, and scholars in gender studies and communication.