The Stages of Women's Oral History

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan H. Armitage
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Single Woman ◽  
Dust Bowl ◽  
Common Pattern ◽  
Women Studies ◽  
Public Programs ◽  
Women's Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

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.

A Memory for Women’s History: Problems of Method and Interpretation

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-692
Author(s):  
Luisa Passerini
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
Women's Center ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

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.

scholarly journals História do Serviço Social – resgatando uma história de mulheres | History of Social Work – Recuperating a history of women

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Freitas ◽  
Nivia Barros ◽  
Adriana Mesquita ◽  
Irias Das Silva
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Professional History ◽  
History Of Social Work ◽  
Women’S History

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.

Interlocutors? Men Authoring Women’s History in the 1890s

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
French History ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Subject Choice ◽  
Islamic Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

This chapter juxtaposes Fawwaz’s use of female biography with selected works by male contemporaries that include biographies or mention of famous women. These comprise a treatise on marriage by Hamza Fathallah; a translation of a French history of ancient Egypt focusing on women, authored by Georges Paturet and translated by ‘Ali Jalal; a history of pre-Islamic women by Habib al-Zayyat al-Dimashqi; and a marriage and conduct manual for young men, by Husayn Fawzi. They all differ markedly from Fawwaz’s dictionary, in emphasis and subject choice. It is fascinating that several Arab male intellectuals of the late 19th century wrote on the ancient history of women in the region, but what kinds of messages did their works yield?

scholarly journals COMPETING NARRATIVES: HISTORIES OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN IRAQ, 1910–58

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 466a-466a
Author(s):  
Noga Efrati
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

The history of the women's movement in Iraq before 1958 has received little attention in contemporary scholarly literature published in English. Moreover, when surveying the brief accounts in secondary sources, one is struck by their inconsistency. Upon closer examination, two historiographical approaches emerge. One primarily follows the development of women's activities sanctioned by the regime, focusing on organizations and activists associated with the Iraqi Women's Union, established in 1945. The second approach traces developments and organizations linked with the underground League for the Defense of Women's Rights, founded in 1952. This essay argues that members of the rival union and league constructed two competing narratives in presenting the history of the women's movement in pre-1958 Iraq. The article unpacks these two different narratives as they were originally articulated by activists in order to piece together a more elaborate portrayal of the evolution of the early Iraqi women's movement. The essay also explores how scholars have reproduced these narratives, arguing that both activists and researchers were active participants in a “war of narratives” that left women's history the unfortunate casualty

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