Memory, Meaning, and Resistance /

Fran Leeper Buss, a former welfare recipient who earned a PhD in history and became a pioneer in the field of oral history, has for forty years dedicated herself to the goal of collecting the stories of marginal and working-class U.S. women. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is based on over 100 oral...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Buss, Fran Leeper, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Börngen, ...
Unterschicht
Oral history
Lebenslauf
Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
Femmes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Women > United States > Biography.
USA
United States.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Situated locations : eight girls, trying to have a boy
  • Agency : god gave you a big mouth
  • Memory construction : since daddy made God die
  • Interrelationships : the third testament
  • Meaning : the footprints of our lives
  • Knowledge from below : we left our berries to rot
  • Activism and social movements : a brown statue of liberty
  • Activism and spirituality : like a conversion
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: profiles of the women mentioned
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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