Women's Creative Writing as a Tool for Praxis

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Abstract

This presentation focuses a qualitative study which used feminist methods to explore the writing and writing lives six women who are creative writers. Two research questions included: 1. How do women use creative writing as a tool for engaging in praxis? 2.) How do women leverage the aesthetic and critical dimensions of creative writing to compose activist texts? Findings indicated that women used creative writing a tool for praxis. Women publicly shared creative writing to disrupt and interrogate oppression. Creative writing offered unique affordances for writers to articulate and shape alternative knowledges. Women also created a multitude of opportunities for the reader to consider intersubjective knowledges and experiences while engaging with craft techniques like the use of imagery.

Author

• Honor McElroy, Salisbury University