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Abstract

shame. shamed. shameful. body. my body.

practitioner’s body. scholar’s body. female body.

affect. embodied affects.

blushing. shrinking. averting my gaze.

feeling shame. writing shame.

féminine writing. feminist writing shame.

ruptured by Cixous.

blood. blood staining page. blood flows.

unpleasant. unruly. uncontained.

performing writing. writing performing.

performative. performing shame.

ethical moment. ethical resistance.

resisting agency. my agency.

movement through shame to the other.

(re)finding you, my body, our bodies, love,

loving, cor-po-real gen-er-os-ity, feeling joy,

feeling scholarship, leaky bodies, our bodies,

not knowing, not ever knowing,

Cixous,

feeling scholarship,

féminine writing, joy,

JOUISSANCE,living differently in organizations,

our organizations,

nourishing milk,

uncontained, connected, connecting,

féminine, feminist, flowing

Keywords

Cixous embodiment féminine writing organizations performative writing shame

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(Re)writing woman: Unshaming shame with Cixous

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