Review Essay: Making the Personal Political: Women's History and Oral History

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
S. Armitage
1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-692
Author(s):  
Luisa Passerini

This essay describes an oral history project that accompanied the establishment of an archive on the history of recent feminism in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The archive, which contains both written and oral historical sources, is now in existence at the library of the Bologna’s Women’s Center, the Centro di Documentazione delle Donne. Raffaella Lamberti (1989) has explained why it was politically important for the Women’s Center to establish such an archive. It should be noted that the Centro di Documentazione, since it was officially proposed in March 1982, has been a totally independent institution, although it draws financial and administrative support from the Regional Administration of Emilia-Romagna.


Collections ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-329
Author(s):  
Stephen Urgola ◽  
Maissan Hassan

Two institutions of relatively small size play a major role in documenting women's history in Egypt: the Rare Books and Special Collections Library (RBSCL) of the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Women and Memory Forum (WMF), a feminist research center in Cairo. This article presents case studies of these institutions’ efforts. The AUC RBSCL's collections are described, including those of leading 20th-century feminist leaders Huda Sharaawi (1879-1947), Doria Shafik (1908-1975), and Aziza Hussein (1919-2015), as are oral history initiatives related to women's history. The article also discusses programs and collections of the WMF, including private papers collections such as that of activist Wedad Mitri (1927-2007), and its Archive of Women's Oral History, which documents women's lives in Egypt and beyond. The initiatives in Egypt of the RBSCL and the WMF indicate how institutions can employ archival collecting, oral history, and outreach-like exhibitions to document and highlight women's historical contributions.


1973 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Stanley ◽  
Aileen S. Kraditor ◽  
Robin Morgan ◽  
William L. O'Neill ◽  
Betty Roszak ◽  
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Author(s):  
Susan H. Armitage

The evolution and the various stages of women's history is the essence of this article. This article records women's history on a more personal way. Over the years, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies has published four special issues on women's oral history, which serve as chronological markers for the development of women's oral history. The author of this article built up her own methodology in order to record the oral history of women. The early days of carrying out women's oral history were exhilarating. The focus was laid upon women who formed the marginalized of society. Miners' wives, farmers' wives who remembered the Dust Bowl, even a single woman homesteader were interviewed and it was their experiences which were accounted for in recording women's history. A common pattern was to use excerpts from completed interviews to create public programs. A search for women's culture, words, feminism, and the problem of representation concludes this article.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Freitas ◽  
Nivia Barros ◽  
Adriana Mesquita ◽  
Irias Das Silva

Este texto tem como objetivo resgatar a participação feminina na constituição da história do Serviço Social, dando visibilidade aos caminhos percorridos e aos papéis desempenhados por algumas mulheres. Para isso, analisamos o caso das pioneiras da Escola de Serviço Social de Niterói, da Universidade Federal Fluminense (ESSN/UFF). O resgate de suas falas, através da história oral, foi o caminho metodologicamente traçado. Iniciamos o texto revisitando a história profissional para, em seguida, discutirmos acerca da necessidade de retirar da invisibilidade o protagonismo dessas mulheres ao construir uma profissão. Aprofundar essa dimensão aponta para a importância de pensarmos algumas questões, como a história das mulheres, o uso da dimensão do gênero e os feminismos na pesquisa acadêmica, o que compreendemos como um grande desafio que se coloca para a profissão.Palavras-Chave: história do Serviço Social; feminismo; gênero e história das mulheres.  Abstract – This text aims to recuperate the participation of women in the constitution of the history of social work, giving visibility to the paths covered and the roles played by women. In order to do this, we analyze the case of the pioneers of the Universidade Federal Fluminense’s Niterói School of Social Service (ESSN/UFF). The recuperation of their speeches, through oral history, was the methodological route. We begin the text revisiting the professional history and then discuss the need to remove from invisibility the protagonism of these women when building a profession. Deepening this dimension points to the importance of thinking about some issues, such as the history of women, the use of the gender dimension and feminisms in academic research, which we understand as a great challenge for the profession.Keywords: history of social work; feminism; gender and women's history.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Dalrún Eygerðardóttir

This paper examines the story of the last female drifters in Iceland from the voices of women who remembered them. It examines the advantages of the woman-on-woman oral history interview when obtaining women’s perspectives on women’s history. An examination of women’s narrative techniques suggests that women’s narrative style is often consistent with a conversational style; and therefore it is important to construct a space in woman-on-woman oral history interviews that carries a sense of place for a conversation. It also examines the woman-on-woman oral history interview as a continuation of women’s oral tradition in Iceland, especially an oral tradition from medieval Iceland; called a narrative dance (ice. sagnadans). Lastly, it examines the shared features of the Icelandic #Metoo event stories and the Icelandic narrative dances, in relation to woman-on-woman oral history interviews.


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