Writing Otherwise Experiments in Cultural Criticism

Writing Otherwise is a collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression. Leading figures in their field, such as Marianne Hirsch, Lynne Pearce, Griselda Pollock, Carol Smart, Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff, all risk new ways of writing about themselves and their subjects.

Aimed at both general and academic readers interested in how scholarly writing might be more innovative and creative, this collection introduces the personal, the poetic and the experimental into the frame of cultural criticism. This collection of essays is highly interdisciplinary and contributes to debates in sociology, history, anthropology, art history, cultural and media studies and gender studies.

Jackie Stacey is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.
 
Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.

1. Writing Otherwise; Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff
PART I: AFFECTS
2. Writing From the Heart; Griselda Pollock
3. Contact; Mary Cappello:
4. On Being Open to Others: Cosmopolitanism and the Psychoanalysis of Groups; Jackie Stacey
5. Touching Lives: Writing the Sociological and the Personal; Carol Smart
PART II: DISPLACEMENTS
6. Atlantic Moves; Janet Wolff
7. Autopia: In Search of What We're Thinking When We're Driving; Lynne Pearce
8. Cheap Chickens and Ethical Eggs: The Place of an English Village in the World; Vron Ware
9. If the Shoe Fits: Appropriating Identity?; Brenda Cooper
Dust and Mangoes: Plain Tales and Hill Stations; Margaret Beetham
PART III: POETICS
10. Bliss (Opera's Untenable Pleasures); Monica B. Pearl
11. Graphic to Surface: Textual Effects and Criticism; Judy Kendall
12. First Person, Plural: Notes on Voice and Collaboration; Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer