Shelby Swafford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelby Swafford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelby |
| FAMILY NAME | Swafford |
| SIGNATURE | SWAFFORD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Communication Studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8397-4868 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reproducing (in) the Apocalypse
Reproducing (in) the Apocalypse I've been thinking a lot lately about all the stories I've told myself about the reasons I had my abortion.This isn't out of the ordinary for me.I often think and write about my abortion in my research on storytelling as reproductive justice activism-how storytelling "invites us to shift the lens-that is, to imagine the life of another person and to reexamine our own realities and reimagine our own possibilities." …
Embodying/writing/performing “women’s work”: Pleasurable tensions and double binds of feminist performative autoethnography
This essay explores a feminist aesthetics of performative autoethnography. I trace the connections between performance studies and feminist body-writing practices and argue for the creative double bind as a heuristic for negotiating the “pleasurable tensions” between body/paper/stage. Locating these connections and tensions in my autoethnographic performance work, I articulate three double binds – material/social, personal/political, and aestheti…
To Be a (M)other: A Feminist Performative Autoethnography of Abortion
This is an abortion story. A feminist story. A body story. An autoethnographic story. This is a story of learning how to story abortion in a culture unforgiving to abortion stories. A story of embodying a body deemed unworthy of embodiment. A story of enfleshment enmeshed amid silence and violence. Influenced by feminist embodied auto-epistemologies, this essay seeks to disrupt the functionality of the U.S. American abortion debate through a perf…
To Be a (M)other: A Feminist Performative Autoethnography of Abortion
This is an abortion story. A feminist story. A body story. An autoethnographic story. This is a story of learning how to story abortion in a culture unforgiving to abortion stories. A story of embodying a body deemed unworthy of embodiment. A story of enfleshment enmeshed amid silence and violence. Influenced by feminist embodied auto-epistemologies, this essay seeks to disrupt the functionality of the U.S. American abortion debate through a perf…
To Be a (M)other: A Feminist Performative Autoethnography of Abortion
This is an abortion story. A feminist story. A body story. An autoethnographic story. This is a story of learning how to story abortion in a culture unforgiving to abortion stories. A story of embodying a body deemed unworthy of embodiment. A story of enfleshment enmeshed amid silence and violence. Influenced by feminist embodied auto-epistemologies, this essay seeks to disrupt the functionality of the U.S. American abortion debate through a perf…
Embodying/writing/performing “women’s work”: Pleasurable tensions and double binds of feminist performative autoethnography
This essay explores a feminist aesthetics of performative autoethnography. I trace the connections between performance studies and feminist body-writing practices and argue for the creative double bind as a heuristic for negotiating the “pleasurable tensions” between body/paper/stage. Locating these connections and tensions in my autoethnographic performance work, I articulate three double binds – material/social, personal/political, and aestheti…
Reproducing (in) the Apocalypse
Reproducing (in) the Apocalypse I've been thinking a lot lately about all the stories I've told myself about the reasons I had my abortion.This isn't out of the ordinary for me.I often think and write about my abortion in my research on storytelling as reproductive justice activism-how storytelling "invites us to shift the lens-that is, to imagine the life of another person and to reexamine our own realities and reimagine our own possibilities." …
Art (3 works) · Autoethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Performative utterance (2 works) · Performativity (2 works)