Description |
vi, 234 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Part I. Language and Communication: 1. Learning to listen: interview techniques and analyses / Kathryn Anderson and Dana C. Jack; 2. A feminist frame for the oral history interview / Kristina Minister; 3. Black women's life stories: reclaiming self in narrative texts / Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis -- Part II. Authority and Interpretation: 4. "That's not what I said": interpretive conflict in oral narrative research / Katherine Borland; 5. Narrative structures, social models, and symbolic representation in the life story / Marie-Françoise Chanfrault-Duchet; 6. A Third World woman's text: between the politics of criticism and cultural politics / Claudia Salazar -- Part III. Dilemmas and Contradictions: 7. Can there be a feminist ethnography? / Judith Stacey; 8. Feminist method, process, and self-criticism: interviewing Sudanese women / Sondra Hale; 9. U.S. academics and Third World women: is ethical research possible? / Daphne Patai -- Part IV. Community and Advocacy: 10. Testimony, action research, and empowerment: Puerto Rican women and popular education / Rina Benmayor; 11. Confronting the demons of feminist public history: scholarly collaboration and community outreach / Laurie Mercier and Mary Murphy; 12. Crossing boundaries, building bridges: doing oral history among working-class women and men / Karen Olsen and Linda Shopes; 13. Advocacy oral history: Palestinian women in resistance / Sherna Berger Gluck |
Summary |
Examines, through the eyes of eighteen scholars in the field, the critical questions confronting oral history as a feminist methodology |
Analysis |
Oral history |
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Oral history |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Oral history.
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Women -- Historiography.
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Women's studies -- Methodology.
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Author |
Gluck, Sherna Berger.
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Patai, Daphne, 1943-
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LC no. |
90048234 |
ISBN |
0415903718 |
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0415903726 (paperback) |
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