Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History / Edition 1

Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History / Edition 1

by Sherna Berger Gluck, Daphne Patai
ISBN-10:
0415903726
ISBN-13:
9780415903721
Pub. Date:
05/23/1991
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415903726
ISBN-13:
9780415903721
Pub. Date:
05/23/1991
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History / Edition 1

Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History / Edition 1

by Sherna Berger Gluck, Daphne Patai

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415903721
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 05/23/1991
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 244
Sales rank: 892,539
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Part I: Language and Communication, Part II: Authority and Interpretation, Part III: Dilemmas and Contradictions, Part IV: Community and Advocacy, Afterword, Index, Contributors
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