Oral History and Feminist Method

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-61
Author(s):  
Margaretta Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
With Memory ◽  
Life Course Analysis ◽  
Second Generation Migrants

The chapter unpacks the book’s method as a history of living activists, set in the context of feminism’s affiliation with oral history and life-course analysis. It discusses the S&A oral history archive on which the book is based, outlining how S&A approached interviewee selection and representation, and acknowledging how such questions continue to divide the movement. Offering an overview of feminist oral history practice, addressing the ethics involved and the interpretative challenges of working with memory, subjectivity and emotion, it shows how the ‘baby boomers’, ‘second generation migrants’ and ‘lesbian-feminists’ who powered the WLM were shaped by the post-war worlds in which they grew up, and talked back to these categories, particularly as they gained control over fertility. The chapter concludes with the story of Sue Lopez, women’s footballer and champion for women’s rights in the sport, demonstrating oral history’s ethical challenges whilst celebrating an inspiring athlete and campaigner. 149 words

Discovering dimensions of research ethics in doing oral history: going public in the case of the Ghent orphanages

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieselot De Wilde ◽  
Griet Roets ◽  
Bruno Vanobbergen
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Going Public ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

In this article, we argue that research ethics in the doing of oral history research are inadequately addressed in the existing body of research. Although oral history researchers have paid considerable attention to procedural ethical issues, there is currently a lack of attention on situational research ethics in the doing of oral history. We address particular ethical challenges that we experienced while reconstructing the history of three remaining orphanages after the Second World War in the city of Ghent (a city in Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium) by drawing on oral history research from former orphans and ex-staff members. Their rather surprising, yet pertinent, questions enabled us to discover the political nature of research ethics, and prompted us to engage in ‘going public’. We discuss the complexities of our attempt to provide a ‘questionable’ historical interpretation for the ambiguous history of these childhood institutions in the recent past.

scholarly journals Finnish Baby Boomers and the Emergence of the Third Age

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antti Karisto
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Third Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Life Course

This paper examines the lives of baby boomers in Finland, and is based on several studies previously published in Finnish. The article considers the particular characteristics of this group of baby boomers. It then discusses whether the baby boom cohorts can also be called a generation. Following this, the life course of the boomer generation is contrasted with various images that have appeared in the media and elsewhere about their lives. Boomers have been presented as a radical’ or ’selfish’ generation. This article proposes two new themes: boomers as a crossroads generation and boomers as a bridging generation. The paper also considers the emergence of the third age as approached from a generational perspective. The third age has been defined as a generational field underpinned by agency and consumption, with its roots in the youth culture of the post-war decades. This characterization is also highly relevant to the Finnish case, but needs to be elaborated by taking into account socio-historical knowledge of the distinctive life course of the boomer generation.

Poster #83 FAMILY HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESSES IN FIRST- AND SECOND-GENERATION MIGRANTS: EVIDENCE FROM THE AESOP FIRST-ONSET STUDY

2012 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. S121
Author(s):  
Francois Bourque ◽  
Susana Borges ◽  
Jane Boydell ◽  
Paul Fearon ◽  
Gerard Hutchinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
First Onset ◽  
History Of ◽  
First And Second Generation ◽  
Second Generation Migrants

Contemporary History of Medicine and Health

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Berridge
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Oral History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Health History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

This article argues that the contemporary history of health and medicine presents some particular challenges, however, for the nature of historians' involvement in the object of their study and for their relationships with other disciplines and with the field of policy. It gives an overview of histories that encompass the nineteenth and twentieth century. Those that focus exclusively on the post-war years mostly deal with welfare, and the other one focuses on health. Oral history has continued to be a key resource for contemporary history. The methodology of elite oral history in contemporary health history is also analysed. It has implications for relationships between the researcher and those being researched. This article also discusses the role of ethical review for the contemporary history of health.

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