Embodying/writing/performing “women’s work”
Pleasurable tensions and double binds of feminist performative autoethnography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12369986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shelby Swafford (0000-0002-8397-4868, School of Communication Studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462937.2021.1993318 |
| OpenAlex | W3211105174 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
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 aesthetic/ethic – that illustrate the “women’s work” of feminist performative autoethnography
Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Negotiation · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Theatre and Performance Studies
Willful Subjects
The Promise of Happiness
The only honest thing
The place of performance in performance studies
Performance studies in communication
Sex Acts Beyond Boundaries and Binaries
Autoethnography's Family Values
Toward a pleasure‐centered economy
En)gendered (and endangered) subjects
Body, Paper, Stage
Performance studies as women's work
Bodies of/as Evidence in Autoethnography
Living a Feminist Life
The Laugh of the Medusa
To Be a (M)other
Performing Autoethnography
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |