"Lauren Fournier's gift in this book is an autotheory that is much more than self-regard. It becomes a whole series of tactics for thinking and feeling together from the margins—of gender, race, ability, and colonialism. This autotheory creates spaces for being together for those excluded from a culture that only tolerates difference as the mirror to the universal bourgeois subject. Fournier traces many lively lines out of feminist writing and art from the late twentieth century from which those of us committed to making this other culture can draw and elaborate. She writes well of many recognizable figures from our other archive and introduces us to new friends we didn't know we had."
McKenzie Wark, author of Reverse Cowgirl
"A comprehensive monograph that poses a real range of considerations for both artistic and literary autotheory scholarship and practice."
Contemporary Women's Writing
"Anyone interested in contemporary feminist art and writing practices would benefit from reading Fournier's book about this exciting new way of infiltrating theory that has hitherto been dominated by a patriarchal, Eurocentric elite."
BookArts
"What Fournier's book does for me—to me—is give name to those artistic works and processes that have always produced a gut-level feeling in me, be it pleasurable or discomforting or downright repulsive. It is here, in the provocative space of the repellent and alluring that autotheory, as both transmedial and transdisciplinary, can trouble existing narratives and hierarchies, and open pathways for new modes of engagement with feminisms and their affiliate histories of art making, writing, and political activism."
– Dr. Marissa Vigneault
The Humber Literary Review
"Autotheory as Feminist Practice, then, excels as a 'here we are now' grounding; a nervy, contemporary feminist art history syllabus."
Hyperallergic
"A useful intellectual history of the 'autotheoretical impulse.'"
Art in America
"Autotheory as Feminist Practice is a great tool for discussion and exchange, and not simply a guide. It is a wonderfully rich source, and surely an essential contribution not only to those interested in autotheory: Many of the discussions in it are relevant to anyone engaging with wider concerns in contemporary art, writing, and criticism."
Passage
"This book is captivating—reading it is an experience akin to the first moment venturing into Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity."
Woman's Art Journal
"A welcome new addition to the efforts at defining this relatively new genre."
Los Angeles Review of Books
“What makes [the book] such an integral and appealing work is Fournier's acknowledgement of her own background... Fournier's honesty is especially striking... [The book] is more than merely an academic text legitimizing practices that have previously been dismissed. Rather, it is a call to foster community building across disciplines and outside of hierarchical systems, a call for accountability and placing care and community before the individual as philosopher."
Journal of Curatorial Studies
"What Fournier's book does for me—to me—is give name to those artistic works and processes that have always produced a gut-level feeling in me, be it pleasurable or discomforting or downright repulsive. It is here, in the provocative space of the repellent and alluring that autotheory, as both transmedial and transdisciplinary, can trouble existing narratives and hierarchies, and open pathways for new modes of engagement with feminisms and their affiliate histories of art making, writing, and political activism."
– Dr. Marissa Vingeault
