ABSTRACT

This chapter aims to enact what unexpected angle a "becoming feminist" analysis might provide, some "intra-acting from within" that is immanent to a particular event where we interrupt our usual "perceptual style and habits of seeing". This is a shift from asking what a feminist analysis would add to something more performative and more deeply rooted in a feminist ethic and politic. It is an active process of taking up a position in between the "'continual production of difference immanent within events'". The chapter explores what a "becoming feminist" analysis would look like in the context of what Donna Haraway calls "that man-breaking sport called football". Such an analysis has something to do with what Childers and a group of emerging feminist scholars call "promiscuous feminisms", the application of feminist analysis to "beyond gender" sorts of topics, in Sara's case theorizing urban student subjectivity.