'I Write Like a Painter': Feminine Creation with Arts‐Based Methods in Organizational Research. Issue 2 (23rd June 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Biehl‐Missal, Brigitte
• Other Names: Höpfl Heather guestEditor.; Pullen Alison guestEditor.; Rhodes Carl guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Gender work and organization. Volume 22:Issue 2(2015:Mar.)
• Page Start: 179
• Page End: 196
• Publication Date: 2014-06-23
• Subjects: arts‐based methods -- écriture féminine -- dance -- painting -- maternal body; Sex role in the work environment -- Periodicals; Sexual division of labor -- Periodicals; Sex discrimination in employment -- Periodicals; Organizational sociology -- Periodicals; Industries -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 306.361505
• DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12055
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0968-6673

Abstract

Abstract : Feminine writing and organizational aesthetics are brought together in this paper to sketch a different form of academic production in organizational research that involves arts‐based methods ('feminine creation'). Feminine creation relates to écriture féminine (Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva) and also to peinture féminine (Nancy Spero) and modern choreography (Trisha Brown). Feminine creation responds to the feminist and the aesthetic critique of conventional academic writing and has the potential to challenge its masculine stereotypes of rationality, rigorous method and explicit knowledge production. The paper discusses the practices of poetic writing, painting and dance that are used to present academic research. It includes its own series of 'peinture feminine', some of which are contributions by the artist and organizational scholar Schrat. They illustrate my argument in a synedochic aesthetic format and encourage a different, aesthetic way of perceiving academic research and of re‐imagining gendered bodies.