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Gender and Memory - Memory and Narrative Series (Paperback, New Ed)
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Gender and Memory - Memory and Narrative Series (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Memory and Narrative
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"Gender and Memory" brings together contributions from around the
world and from a range of disciplines--history and sociology,
socio-linguistics and family therapy, literature--to create a
volume that confronts all those concerned with autobiographical
testimony and narrative, both spoken and written. The fundamental
theme is the shaping of memory by gender. This paperback edition
includes a new introduction by Selma Leydesdorff, coeditor of the
Memory and Narrative series of which this volume is a part.
Are the different ways in which men and women are recalled in
public and private memory and the differences in men's and women's
own memories of similar experiences, simply reflections of unequal
lives in gendered societies, or are they more deeply rooted? The
sharply differentiated life experiences of men and women in most
human societies, the widespread tendencies for men to dominate in
the public sphere and for women's lives to focus on family and
household, suggest that these experiences may be reflected in
different qualities of memory.
The contributors maintain that memories are gendered, and that the
gendering of memory makes a strong impact on the shaping of social
spaces and expressive forms as the horizons of memory move from one
generation to the next. They argue that in order to understand how
memory becomes gendered, we need to travel through the realms of
gendered experience and gendered language.
Selma Leydesdorff is professor of oral history at the University
of Amsterdam. Her publications include "We Lived with Dignity and
Trauma" and (with Kim Lacy Rogers) "Trauma: Life Stories of
Survivors." Luisa Passerini is professor of cultural history at the
University of Torino. Her publications include "Europe in Love,
Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics Between the Wars, Il mito
d'Europa: Radici antiche per nuovi simboli, and Memoria e utopia:
Il primato dell'intersoggettivit." Paul Thompson is research
professor in sociology at the University of Essex and a fellow at
the Institute of Community Studies, London. He is founder-editor of
Oral History, and founder of the National Life Story Collection,
British Library National Sound Archive. His previous publications
include "The Voice of the Past" and "The Edwardians."
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