How can I turn my feminist ethnographic engagement into words? A perspective on knowledge production inspired by Audre Lorde
本文探讨如何以女性主义方式将民族志田野调查转化为文字,强调情感在写作中的作用,并展示写作如何成为赋权行动,挑战线性写作的支配性叙述。
Abstract The article explores the topic of turning a feminist activist ethnographic “fieldwork” into words, that is, of writing an ethnographic account in a feminist way. It builds on the work of Audre Lorde to underline the role of emotions in a feminist writing process producing emancipatory knowledge. First, the article contributes to the topic of emotions in feminist writing, by redefining induction as an emotional rather than a rational process. Second, I show how the contribution of Audre Lorde to rethinking writing as an emancipatory process helped me come out of silence and gain empowerment, and hence how writing can be a feminist empowering action. Finally, displaying a story about my experience of writing can hopefully resonates with the ones of others and challenge dominant accounts of writing as a linear process.