Writing Feminist Autoethnography explores the personal-is-political relationship between autoethnography and feminist theory and practice.

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