Abstract

Abstract: Entre les années 1930 et 1960, l’organisation féministe états-unienne National Woman’s Party (NWP) se préoccupe intensément de préserver son rôle dans les luttes suffragistes passées. Afin de revendiquer sa place dans cette histoire militante, elle se lance alors dans une vaste entreprise historiographique, au sein de laquelle son siège à Washington, Alva Belmont House, joue un rôle prépondérant. En effet, ce lieu de mémoire peut être analysé comme un espace de production des savoirs historiques, à travers des usages et pratiques spécifiques. La mobilisation des archives militantes et des sources de presse permet d’étudier la façon dont la mémoire est construite, matérialisée et transmise depuis ce lieu, ainsi que les enjeux de pouvoir qui s’y rattachent. En retour, cela révèle la façon dont un mouvement social peut utiliser, voire instrumentaliser le passé à des fins politiques. Abstract: Between the 1930s and 1960s, the National Woman’s Party (NWP), an American feminist organization, was intensely committed to the preservation of the role it played in past suffragist struggles. In order to assert its place in this activist history, it embarked on a vast historiographical undertaking in which its Washington headquarters, the Alva Belmont House, played a leading role. Indeed, this place of memory can be analyzed as a space where historical knowledge was produced, through specific uses and practices. The mobilization of militant archives and press sources enables us to study the way in which memory is constructed, materialized and transmitted from this site, as well as the issues of power involved. This, in turn, reveals how a social movement can use, or even instrumentalize, the past for political ends.

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