Gender and Memory
Oral History and Women’s History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20060197 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Chamberlain (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Pages | 94-110 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Engendering History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-137-07302-0_5 |
| OpenAlex | W2472625611 |
| ISBN | 9781137073020 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Precisely because memory is malleable, is susceptible to confusion and conflation, to lapses and lying, to suggestion and sensation, and always to the role of the imagination, oral sources have been dismissed by many traditional historians as untrustworthy, or relegated to the periphery of historical enquiry. 'For some areas of historical study,' Arthur Marwick reluctantly conceded in the 1989 edition of his student primer, The Nature of History, 'relating to the poor and the underprivileged, this kind of source may be the main one available ... for Black Americans in the Deep South, working class wives in Edwardian Britain, Italian peasants in the First World War, and for much recent Third World history'.1
Art · Conflation · Confusion · Epistemology · Historical memory · Humanities · Oral history · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2019 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |