Alison: When an invitation to write a chapter on feminist writing for this book arrived on my desk, my first response was to think:“I don’t have time to do feminist work any more, I have nothing to say”. A moment’s reflection revealed, however, that I actually spend a good deal of my time working in supervision with doctoral students who are undertaking feminist research. The pedagogical relationships of supervision are one important site for the production of feminist knowledge and identity–and for the practice of feminist writing.
The situation in which I find myself, 15 years out from my own doctorate, and preoccupied with the demands of management and intensified working conditions, is to look for the spaces and cracks in which feminist scholarship can still be done. For me, doctoral pedagogy is one such space. I am therefore still able to be involved in doing feminist intellectual work–once removed.