‘I Write Like a Painter’: Feminine Creation with Arts‐Based Methods in Organizational Research

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 ( C ixous, I rigaray, and K risteva) and also to peinture féminine ( N ancy S pero) and modern choreography ( T risha B rown). 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.