Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History

Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History

by Daphne Patai (Contributor), Daphne Patai (Contributor), Sherna Berger Gluck (Editor)

Synopsis

Women's Words is the first collection of writings devoted exclusively to exploring the theoretical, methodological, and practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary esays, the book takes stock of the implicit presuppositions , contradictions, and prospects of oral history at the hands of feminist scholars.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 244
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08 Aug 1991

ISBN 10: 0415903726
ISBN 13: 9780415903721

Author Bio
Sherna Berger Gluck coordinates the oral history program at California State University where she also teaches women's studies. She is the author of From Parlor to Pris on and Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, The War and Social Change. Daphne Patai is Professor of Women's Studies and of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of The Orwell Mystique: A Study In Male Ideology and Brazilian Women Speak: Contemporary Life Stories.