Women's Words

ISBN 10: 0415903726 / ISBN 13: 9780415903721

Published by Routledge, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women's Words
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415903726
• ISBN 13: 9780415903721
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 1.397W x 15.189H x 22.911D centimeters 1.397 centimeters width by 15.189 centimeters height by 22.911 centimeters depth
• Weight: 318 grams

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Synopsis

Women's Words is the first collection of writings devoted exclusively to exploring the theoretical, methodological, and practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary esays, the book takes stock of the implicit presuppositions , contradictions, and prospects of oral history at the hands of feminist scholars.

About the Author

Sherna Berger Gluck coordinates the oral history program at California State University where she also teaches women's studies. She is the author of From Parlor toPris on and Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, The Warand Social Change.

Daphne Patai is Professor of Women's Studies and of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of The OrwellMystique: A Study In Male Ideology and Brazilian WomenSpeak: Contemporary Life Stories.