Women's oral history
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Women's oral history
（The Frontiers reader）
University of Nebraska Press, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Women's Oral History: The Frontiers Reader is an essential introduction to the methodology and theory of writing and researching about women's oral history. In the 1970s when the second wave of the women's movement was underway, scholars wanted to narrow the divide between academics and the community and bring together feminist scholars and activists. As they began their research, these women realized they had little to no knowledge of women's histories and their lives to draw from-and very little idea how to go about collecting, organizing, and interpreting these histories. This collected work features nineteen essays from the noted women's journal Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies that show the evolution and methodology of collecting women's oral histories. They trace the beginnings in the 1970s to the present, guiding readers through the process of collecting women's oral histories.
The essays cover a range of topics including the reasons we need to study women's history, ways to encourage the elderly to recall their lives, how to document history through personal accounts, discussing the study of difference, and the importance of personal validation as well as communication. The collection is as much a thought-provoking look into women's histories as it is a call for women to write and record their own histories. Sue Armitage is a professor of history at Washington State University and editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Part 1: Basic Approaches What's So Special About Women? Women's Oral History Women's Oral History Resource Section Sherna Gluck Doing Oral History as an Outsider Margaret Strobel Digging beneath the Surface: Oral History Techniques Sherry Thomas The Next Step Susan H. Armitage Reflections on Women's Oral History: An Exchange Susan H. Armitage and Sherna Gluck Giving Voice to Chinese American Women Judy Yung Part 2: Oral History Applications Oral History as a Biographical Tool Sally Roesch Wagner "I Give the Best Part of My Life to the Mill": An Oral History of Icy Norman Mary Murphy Looking Inward, Looking Backward: Reminiscence and the Life Review Harriet Wrye and Jacqueline Churilla Good Work, Sister! The Making of an Oral History Production Amy Kesselman, Tina Tau, and Karen Wickre Filming Nana: Some Dilemmas of Oral History on Film Connie Broughton Treading the Traces of Discarded History: Oral History Installations Alison Marchant Patching the Past: Students and Oral History Anne M. Butler and Gerri W. Sorenson Part 3: Oral History Discoveries and Insights Using Oral History to Chart the Course of Illegal Abortions in Montana Diane Sands Grassroots Leadership Reconceptualized: Chicana Oral Histories and the 1968 Los Angeles School Blowouts Dolores Delgado Bernal The Southern Paiute Woman in a Changing Society Lucille Jake, Evelyn James, and Pamela Bunte From the Yazoo Mississippi Delta to the Urban Communities of the Midwest: Conversations with Rural African American Women Valerie Grim Domestic Violence and Poverty: The Narratives of Homeless Women Jean Calterone Williams Gender, Sexuality, and Class in National Narrations: Palestinian Camp Women Tell Their Lives Rosemary Sayigh Women of the British Coalfields on Strike in 1926 and 1984: Documenting Lives Using Oral History and Photography Jaclyn J. Gier-Viskovatoff and Abigail Porter List of Contributors
- Index
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