He would know, but i just have a feeling: Gender and oral history1

Women's History Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 343-359

  Daley, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 31144471757     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612029800200173     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. The literature on feminism and oral history is extensive. At the risk of establishing a feminist canon, the following are some of the works which have influenced this piece: Joan Sangster (1994) Telling our stories: feminist debates and the use of oral history, Women's History Review, 3, pp. 5-28;
2. Mary Stuart (1994) You're a big girl now: subjectivities, feminism and oral history, Oral History: the Journal of the Oral History Society, 22, pp. 55-63;
3. Women's Lives Issue (1993) Oral History: the Journal of the Oral History Society, 21;
4. Sherna Berger Gluck & Daphne Patai (Eds) (1991) Women's Words: the feminist practice of oral history, (New York: Routledge);
5. Susan Geiger (1990) What's so feminist about women's oral history? Journal of Women's History, 2, pp. 169-182;
6. Women's History Issue (1977) Oral History: the Journal of the Oral History Society, 5.
7. Sherna Berger Gluck & Daphne Patai (1991) Introduction, in Gluck & Patai (Eds) Women's Words, p. 3.
8. Katherine Borland (1991) That's not what I said': interpretative conflict in oral narrative research, in Gluck & Patai (Eds) Women's Words.
9. Sangster, 'Telling our stories', p. 6.
10. Barbara Allen (1992) Story in oral history: clues to historical consciousness, Journal of American History, 79, September, p. 607.
11. Luisa Passerini (1987) Fascism in Popular Memory: the cultural experience of the Turin working class, especially pp. 19-59 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
12. Gisela Bock (1989) Women's history and gender history: aspects of an international debate, Gender & History, 1, p. 21, emphasis in the original.
13. See also Joan Wallach Scott (1988) Gender and the Politics of History (New York: Columbia University Press).
14. Selma Leydesdorff, Luisa Passerini & Paul Thompson (1996) Introduction, in Selma Leydesdorff, Luisa Passerini & Paul Thompson (Eds) International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Volume IV, Gender and Memory, p. 7 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
15. This idea of gendered experiences leading to gendered memories is explored in several of the essays in Leydesdorff et al, International Yearbook of Oral History, although mainly through the experiences of either women or men, rather than women and men. See, for example, Eva Brücker (1996) Clubmen and functionaries: male memory in two Berlin working-class neighbourhoods from the 1920s to the 1980s, in Leydesdorff et al, International Yearbook of Oral History, pp. 45-58;
16. Renate Siebert (1996) Women and the Mafia: the power of silence and memory, in Leydesdorff et al, International Yearbook of Oral History, pp. 73-87;
17. Judith Modell & John Hinshaw (1996) Male work and mill work: memory and gender in Homestead, Pennsylvania, in Leydesdorff et al, International Yearbook of Oral History, pp. 133-149.
18. On the essential woman see Denise Riley (1988) Am I That Name: feminism and the category of 'woman' in history (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
19. There is obviously a question in any historical research about how selective the researcher is in the quotes cited and material presented. What follows in this article is a small part of a much larger work exploring gender relations within a particular community. For the wider context see Caroline Daley (1992) Gender in the community: a study of the women and men of the Taradale area, 1886-1930, unpublished PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. In most instances here and in the thesis 1 have quoted or referred to the question I asked, to give an indication of the context.
20. See, for example, Joan R. Gundersen (1986) The local parish as a female institution: the experience of All Saints Episcopal Church in frontier Minnesota, Church History, 55, p. 320;
21. Jama Lazerow (1987) Religion and the New England mill girl: a new perspective on an old theme, New England Quarterly, 60, p. 430;
22. and Ted Ownby (1990) Subduing Satan: religion, recreation, and manhood in the rural South, 1865-1920, p. 129 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
23. Some information was available on the congregations of the local Anglican, Roman Catholic and Methodist churches, 1885-1915. Of the 464 people known to have attended these churches, 295 or 64% were women. However, when marital status was taken into account, it was discovered that married women and men had very similar attendance patterns. Single women were the mainstays of the church congregations, with single men rarely attending. For further information see Daley (1992) 'Gender in the community', pp. 188497.
24. Alessandro Portelli (1991) discusses many of these issues in the first four chapters of The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: form and meaning in oral history (Albany: State University of New York Press).
25. Susan E. Chase & Colleen S. Bell (1994) Interpreting the complexity of women's subjectivity, in Eva M McMahan & Kim Lacy Rogers (Eds) Interactive Oral History Interviewing, p. 79 (Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
26. On the performativity of gender see Judith Butler (1990) Gender Trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity (London and New York: Routledge)
27. and (1993) Bodies that Matter: on the discursive limits of 'sex' (London and New York: Routledge).
28. Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell & John Lee (1985) Towards a sociology of masculinity, Theory and Society, 14, p. 587.