
Gender and Memory
Memory and Narrative Series
Luisa Passerini(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. May 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-1-4128-0463-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4128-0463-9 (9781412804639)
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Person
Luisa Passerini
Content
1: Introduction; 2: Gender Differences in Memories for Speech; 3: The Social Experiences of a Countrywoman in Soviet Russia; 4: Clubmen and Functionaries: Male Memory in Two Berlin Working-class Neighbourhoods from the 1920s to the 1980s; 5: Ubiquitous but Invisible: The Presence of Women Singers within a Basque Male Tradition; 6: Women and the Mafia; 7: Love and Ambition; 8: Women in the Ivory Coast: The Intertwining of Memory and Gender; 9: Gendered Moments and Inscripted Memories; 10: Male Work and Mill Work; 11: Remembrance, Romance, and Nation; 12: Stepchildren's Memories of Love and Loss; Review Article