Gender and the categories of experienced history

Gender and History

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 597-611

  Leydesdorff, Selma ^a  

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ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFE EVENT; MEMORY; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEMORY; NARRATION; RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 0039621573     PISSN: 09535233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.00166     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. A very early reference was made by Michelle Perrot at a UNESCO meeting in 1984 of international experts: 'Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Approaches to Studies on the Role of Women in History as Actors in Economic, Social, Political and Ideological Processes'. See M. Perrot, 'Making History: Women in France', in Retrieving Women's History: Changing Perceptions of the Role of Women in Politics and Society, ed. J. Kleinberg (Berg, Oxford, 1988), pp. 41-60.
2. See for instance R. Ely and Alyssa McCabe, 'Gender Differences in Memories for Speech', in Gender and Memory: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, vol. IV, ed. S. Leydesdorff, L. Passerini, and P. Thompson (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996), pp. 17-31.
3. There are exceptions to such generalisations. For instance Frontiers, A Journal of Women's Studies had three volumes on feminist oral history in 1977, 1983, 1998.
4. See S. Leydesdorff, L. Passerini, P. Thompson, Introduction, in Leydesdorff et al., Gender and Memory, p. 2.
5. See for instance Mary Nash's fascinating book Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War (Arden Press, Denver, 1995). There are also autobiographical books which build a collective memory through a variety of individual stories, such as L. Gulati, In the Absence of their Men (Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, and Sage, London, 1993). Or, to take another genre, A. Baker, Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women (State University of New York Press, New York, 1998).
6. See for instance Mary Nash's fascinating book Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War (Arden Press, Denver, 1995). There are also autobiographical books which build a collective memory through a variety of individual stories, such as L. Gulati, In the Absence of their Men (Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, and Sage, London, 1993). Or, to take another genre, A. Baker, Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women (State University of New York Press, New York, 1998).
7. See for instance Mary Nash's fascinating book Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War (Arden Press, Denver, 1995). There are also autobiographical books which build a collective memory through a variety of individual stories, such as L. Gulati, In the Absence of their Men (Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, and Sage, London, 1993). Or, to take another genre, A. Baker, Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women (State University of New York Press, New York, 1998).
8. See for instance E. Roberts, Women and Families: An Oral History, 1940-1970 (Blackwell, Oxford, 1995).
9. See for instance Lila Abu Lughod, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993); D. L. Wolf (ed.), Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork (Westview Press, Colorado, 1996), especially the article by V. Matsumoto, 'Reflections on Oral History: Research in a Japanese American Community', pp. 160-70; and A. James, J. Hockey and A. Dawson, After Writing: Culture, Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology (Routledge, London and New York, 1997).
10. See for instance Lila Abu Lughod, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993); D. L. Wolf (ed.), Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork (Westview Press, Colorado, 1996), especially the article by V. Matsumoto, 'Reflections on Oral History: Research in a Japanese American Community', pp. 160-70; and A. James, J. Hockey and A. Dawson, After Writing: Culture, Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology (Routledge, London and New York, 1997).
11. See for instance Lila Abu Lughod, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993); D. L. Wolf (ed.), Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork (Westview Press, Colorado, 1996), especially the article by V. Matsumoto, 'Reflections on Oral History: Research in a Japanese American Community', pp. 160-70; and A. James, J. Hockey and A. Dawson, After Writing: Culture, Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology (Routledge, London and New York, 1997).
12. See for instance Lila Abu Lughod, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993); D. L. Wolf (ed.), Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork (Westview Press, Colorado, 1996), especially the article by V. Matsumoto, 'Reflections on Oral History: Research in a Japanese American Community', pp. 160-70; and A. James, J. Hockey and A. Dawson, After Writing: Culture, Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology (Routledge, London and New York, 1997).
13. S. Gluck and D. Patai (eds), Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History (Routledge, London, 1991); Personal Narratives Group (eds), Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1989).
14. S. Gluck and D. Patai (eds), Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History (Routledge, London, 1991); Personal Narratives Group (eds), Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1989).
15. The same is true for some feminist literary studies, where (auto)biography is discussed. One of the most important books showing this interaction is R. Ganier, Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920 (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1991). was also inspired by F. Lionnet, Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1989). For an extensive review article, see L. Marcus, 'Border Crossings: Recent Feminist Auto/biographical Theory', in S. Leydesdorff et al., Gender and Memory, pp. 187-95.
16. The same is true for some feminist literary studies, where (auto)biography is discussed. One of the most important books showing this interaction is R. Ganier, Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920 (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1991). was also inspired by F. Lionnet, Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1989). For an extensive review article, see L. Marcus, 'Border Crossings: Recent Feminist Auto/biographical Theory', in S. Leydesdorff et al., Gender and Memory, pp. 187-95.
17. The same is true for some feminist literary studies, where (auto)biography is discussed. One of the most important books showing this interaction is R. Ganier, Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920 (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1991). was also inspired by F. Lionnet, Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1989). For an extensive review article, see L. Marcus, 'Border Crossings: Recent Feminist Auto/biographical Theory', in S. Leydesdorff et al., Gender and Memory, pp. 187-95.
18. 'Susan Armitage to Sherna Berger Gluck', in S. Armitage and S. Berger Gluck, 'Reflections on Women's Oral History: An Exchange', in Frontiers, A Journal of Women's Studies, 19 (1998), p. 2.
19. Armitage and Gluck, Frontiers, p. 5.
20. Armitage and Gluck, Frontiers, p. 3.
21. Luisa Passerini, Paul Thompson and I have also noticed this: 'It has been crucial to hear female voices, whether in politics or in women's groups, discussing present or past experiences. The rediscovery of female voices in history has affirmed the need for female voices now, and vice versa' (Leydesdorff et al., Introduction, in Gender and Memory, p. 6).
22. S. Gluck and D. Patai, Women's Words. I still think of this book as path-breaking (and I still teach from it), especially the ways they have made visible how difficult it is to listen. The other 'old' book I still use is Interpreting Women's Lives, edited by the Personal Narratives Group.
23. S. Gluck and D. Patai, Women's Words. I still think of this book as path-breaking (and I still teach from it), especially the ways they have made visible how difficult it is to listen. The other 'old' book I still use is Interpreting Women's Lives, edited by the Personal Narratives Group.
24. Joan Sangster, 'Telling our Stories: Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History', in Women's History Review, 3 (1994), p. 13.
25. Sangster, 'Telling our Stories', p. 15.
26. See for instance Natalie Zemon Davis, Women in the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives (Harvard University Press, Cambridge and London, 1995).
27. B. Laslett and B. Thorne, Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London, 1997).
28. L. Stanley, 'Writing the Borders: Episodic and Theoretic Thoughts on Not/ belonging', in Knowing Feminism, ed. L. Stanley (Sage, London, 1997) and L. Stanley, 'Recovering Women in History from Feminist Deconstruction', in Women's Studies International Forum, 13 (1990).
29. L. Stanley, 'Writing the Borders: Episodic and Theoretic Thoughts on Not/ belonging', in Knowing Feminism, ed. L. Stanley (Sage, London, 1997) and L. Stanley, 'Recovering Women in History from Feminist Deconstruction', in Women's Studies International Forum, 13 (1990).
30. As he says in On Toleration (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1997), the way in which toleration is not only a principle but also a political practice has many consequences for everyday life and the ways we cope with cultural pluralism: 'Cultures and religions have marked themselves off by distinctive practices in these matters [he refers to family arrangements and gender roles] and then have criticised the practices of "others". But a virtually universal male domination sets limits to what could be argued about' (p. 60). This has given me a lot of ideas about framing my interviews in migrant communities.
31. B. J. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld (Random House, Toronto, 1995) . See also G. Kepel, Allah in the West: Islamic Movements in America and Europe (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997).
32. B. J. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld (Random House, Toronto, 1995) . See also G. Kepel, Allah in the West: Islamic Movements in America and Europe (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997).
33. The best-known is Assia Diebar, but there are many others; for example my favourite, by Merlene Amar, La Femme sans tête (Gallimard, Paris, 1993).
34. Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (Ivy Books, New York, 1993).
35. I developed this in S. Leydesdorff, 'Genres of Migration', in Caribbean Migrations, Globalised Identities, ed. M. Chamberlain (Routledge, London, 1998), pp. 81-95. See also in this volume H. Lutz, 'The Legacy of Migration: Immigrant Mothers and Daughters and the Process of Intergenerational Transmission', pp. 95-109.
36. I developed this in S. Leydesdorff, 'Genres of Migration', in Caribbean Migrations, Globalised Identities, ed. M. Chamberlain (Routledge, London, 1998), pp. 81-95. See also in this volume H. Lutz, 'The Legacy of Migration: Immigrant Mothers and Daughters and the Process of Intergenerational Transmission', pp. 95-109.
37. Forthcoming as a joint book by D. Bertaux and P. Thompson in the series 'Memory and Narrative' (Routledge, London and New York).
38. D. Bertaux, and P. Thompson, Between Generations: Family Models, Myths and Memories (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993).
39. P. Bourdieu, La Misère du Monde (Seuil, Paris, 1993).
40. H. Slim and P. Thompson, Listening for a Change: Oral Testimony and Development (Panos, London, 1993).
41. M. Mukhopadhyay, Legally Dispossessed: Gender, Identity and the Process of Law (Stree, Calcutta, 1998); L. Antherjanam, Cast Me Out of Your Will: Stories and Memory (Stree, Calcutta, 1998).
42. M. Mukhopadhyay, Legally Dispossessed: Gender, Identity and the Process of Law (Stree, Calcutta, 1998); L. Antherjanam, Cast Me Out of Your Will: Stories and Memory (Stree, Calcutta, 1998).
43. S. Leydesdorff, We Lived with Dignity: The Amsterdam Jewish Proletariat 1900-1940 (Wayne State University Press, Wayne State, 1994).
44. Yvette J. Kopijn, 'The Oral History Interview in a Cross-Cultural Setting', in Narrative and Genre, ed. Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson (Routledge, London, 1998), pp. 142-60.
45. Mary Chamberlain, Narratives of Exile and Return (Macmillan, London, 1997).
46. S. Joseph, 'Relationality and Ethnographic Subjectivity: Key Informants and the Construction of Personhood in Fieldwork', in Feminist Dilemmas, ed. Wolf, pp. 185-215.
47. S. Leydesdorff et al., Gender and Memory.
48. L. Stanley, 'Writing the Borders: Episodic and Theoretic Thoughts on Not/ Belonging', in Knowing Feminism, ed. Stanley.
49. Much of the credit for this project goes to Maytrayee Mukhopadhyay, author of Legally Dispossessed, and to her team at the Royal Tropical Institute.