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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These 13 essays will be of most immediate interest to academics and others who collect and work with oral histories. However, those who are willing to give pk the pieces alternative readings (for example, considering the interview as a text and the interviewer as reader of that text) may find pk them intriguing as expressions of current feminist research and interpretive methodologies. Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis maintains that the speech patterns of an interviewee provide information about her life and pk opinions, and that accepting white female experience as a norm "establishes an elitism within the heart of much feminist research." Sondra Hale records her confusion as she discovers that her own politically correct stance as an interviewer in the Sudan doesn't guarantee that her subjects won't try to manipulate her for their own ends. And in an effective piece on the ethics of researching Third World women, Patai suggests that despite feminists' "sisterly posture of mutual learning," their research can reproduce the inequalities it seeks to expose. Gluck is the author of From Parlor to Prison ; Patai wrote The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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.
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.
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New York, Puerto Rican, Third World, United States, Duelli Klein, Gwen Etter-Lewis, James Clifford, Women's Union, Writing Culture, Lyn Star, North American, Affirming Cultural Citizenship, Ann Oakley, Doris Sommer, Harvard University Press, Hunter College, Latin American, University of California Press, Centro de Estudios, Cornell University Press, Linda Shopes, Popular Memory Group, Reinventing Anthropology, University of Chicago Press, Barrie Thorne New!
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Oral history interviews provide an invaluable means of generating new insights about women's experiences of themselves in their worlds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Puerto Rican, Third World, United States, Duelli Klein, Gwen Etter-Lewis, James Clifford, Women's Union, Writing Culture, Lyn Star, North American, Affirming Cultural Citizenship, Ann Oakley, Doris Sommer, Harvard University Press, Hunter College, Latin American, University of California Press, Centro de Estudios, Cornell University Press, Linda Shopes, Popular Memory Group, Reinventing Anthropology, University of Chicago Press, Barrie Thorne New!
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- Brazilian Women Speak: Contemporary Life Stories by Daphne Patai on page 106, page 151, and Back Matter
- Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by J. Ronald Grele on page 41, page 90, and page 203
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