International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories: Volume IV
Subtitle: Gender and Memory (International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories)
Contributors: Selma Leydesdorff (Editor); Luisa Passerini (Editor); Paul Thompson (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: June 29, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780198202516
Description: Gender and Memory is the fourth volume of the International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories. Once again, its theme is a fundamental issue, the shaping of memory by gender. Are the different ways in which men and women are recalled in public and private memory, and also 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?

How early in childhood do girls and boys reveal differences in memory? How far does the character of memory change as gender roles evolve? The Special Editors of Gender and Memory, Selma Leydesdorff, Luisa Passerini, and Paul Thompson, draw on original contributions reflecting on the relationships between gender and memory in western and eastern Europe, China, Africa, Australia, the United States and Brazil.