Women's Memoirs Research Articles

Fictions of femininity: literary inventions of gender in Japanese court women's memoirs

Abbreviations 1. The staging of feminine self-disclosure 2. The staging of feminine self-disclosure 2. The engendering of the heroine in the Kagero nikki 3. Fictions of desire in the Sarashina nikki 4. The desire for fiction in the Sarashina nikki 5. The problem of others in the Sanuki no suke nikki 6. The poetics of voyeruism in The Pillow Book Notes Index.

When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography

When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography

Moravian Women's Memoirs: Their Related Lives, 1750–1820. Translated with an introduction by Katherine M. Faull. Women and Gender in North American Religions. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xl + 166 pp. $34.95 cloth; $16.95 paper.

Moravian Women's Memoirs: Their Related Lives, 1750–1820. Translated with an introduction by Katherine M. Faull. Women and Gender in North American Religions. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xl + 166 pp. $34.95 cloth; $16.95 paper.

Moravian Women's Memoirs: Their Related Lives, 1750-1820.

Moravian Women's Memoirs: Their Related Lives, 1750-1820.

Women's Voices in Holocaust Literary Memoirs

Holocaust literary memoirs by women reveal distinct gendered differences in the experience of men and women in Nazi concentration camps. These differences are the result of obvious biological differences (e.g., childbirth, menstruation), as well as subtle socially derived differences (e.g., household and mothering skills), which simultaneously disadvantaged and empowered the women. While women's literary memoirs unequivocally demonstrate the inherent perversity of Nazism, they also evoke issues that spark controversies related to gender-based analyses. As in other literary memoirs, women's memoirs raise the persistent challenge of art to express the unimaginable and unthinkable.

Oral narrative research with black women

Introduction - Kim Marie Vaz Oral Narrative Research with Black Women PART ONE: Ancestor Mothers Ophelia and Me - Martia Graham Goodson Tribute to an Early Narrative Researcher Professions of Faith - Joycelyn Moody A Teacher Reflects on Women, Race, Church, and Spirit PART TWO: RESEARCH PROCESSES: GIVING VOICE What Do Women Know?...As I was saying! - Christine Obbo You Haven't Seen Anything Until You Make a Black Woman Mad - Arlene Hambrick Oral History - Georgia W Brown Louisiana Black Women's Memoirs PART THREE: RESEARCH PROCESSES: HEALTH AND WELL-BEING Talking about Sex and HIV - Renee T White Conceptualizing a New Sociology of Experience Methodological Issues in Triangulation - Jacqueline A Walcott-McQuigg Measuring Weight Control Behavior of African American Women Where Have all the Nice Old Ladies Gone? - Claudia J Gollop Researching the Health Information-Seeking Behavior of Older African American Women African American Women and the Emergence of Self-Will - Elizabeth A Peterson A Report on the Use of Phenomenological Research PART FOUR: RESEARCH PROCESSES: NEGOTIATING INSTITUTIONS Reconstructing the History of Musicians' Protective Union Local 274 through Oral Narrative Method - Diane D Turner Methodological Considerations in Field Research - Patricia Green-Powell Six Case Studies Social Conformity and Social Resistance - Kim Marie Vaz Women's Perspectives on `Women's Place' European American and African American Men and Women's Valuations of Feminist and Natural Science Methods in Psychology - Leslie Ann Kingman

Women's development through personal knowing

Striking intuitive experiences may influence women to become active in working for social and political change and to pursue nontraditional career goals. These moments of insight, referred to a experiences of personal knowing, are the subject of this qualitative study of 100 excerpts from women's memoirs, journals and autobiographies. Personal knowing in these narratives includes an important personal insight, strong affect, an altered state of consciousness, suddenness and physical sensations. The first person narratives studied demonstrate that women spontaneously write about personal knowing to explain their motivations, life choices and self-development.Personal knowing experiences, which are often considered trivial or exceptional, are discussed as significant developmental events which combine cognition and affect and may occur throughout the life cycle.

Lessons Learned from Gentle Heroism: Women's Holocaust Narratives

Memoirs written by women survivors of the Holocaust share certain characteristics with those written by men, such as a narrative structure that begins with belonging and then moves to humiliation, isolation, deprivation, and finally annihilation. Men and women survivors both describe gratuitous and deliberate violence by Kapos and SS. However, women's memoirs also share strikingly similar characteristics with each other that differ from men's memoirs and that stem from their experiences as women and as Jews— thus as double victims—in a misogynistic, racist totalitarian society. Women's memoirs yield anecdotes that demonstrate women's resourcefulness in the hells of the ghettos and camps. Thus women's narratives are rich sources of the characteristics of an alternative social structure based on traditional feminine values. The experience of women during the Holocaust shows that traditionally feminist values of cooperating and caring are important conditions for the perpetuation of civilization, irrespective of religious, ethnic, or nationalist identification.

The Recovery of Memory, Fantasy, and Desire: Feminist Approaches to Sexual Abuse and Psychic Trauma

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Recovery of Memory, Fantasy, and Desire: Feminist Approaches to Sexual Abuse and Psychic TraumaJanice HaakenJanice Haaken Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 21, Number 4Summer, 1996Feminist Theory and Practice Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/495132 Views: 28Total views on this site Citations: 24Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1996 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Lisa Hodge A Story of Language, Meaning and Power, (Mar 2021): 29–70.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6296-3_2Lisa Hodge Situating Silence in Child Sexual Abuse, (Mar 2021): 221–266.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6296-3_7Sarbani Banerjee Gender submerging the caste–class question? Revisiting Jyotirmoyee Devi’s The River Churning, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56, no.66 (Jun 2020): 734–746.https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1765190Jamie L. Small Constructing Sexual Harm: Prosecutorial Narratives of Children, Abuse, and the Disruption of Heterosexuality, Gender & Society 33, no.44 (May 2019): 560–582.https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243219846598Freya Johnson The Writing-Machine as Method: Affect, Acker, and the Traumatized Subject, GeoHumanities 5, no.11 (Apr 2019): 54–68.https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2019.1586561Ana Belén Martínez García Denouncing Human Trafficking in China: North Korean Women's Memoirs as Evidence, State Crime Journal 8, no.11 (Jan 2019).https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.8.1.0059Georgia Ovenden Young women's management of victim and survivor identities, Culture, Health & Sexuality 14, no.88 (Sep 2012): 941–954.https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2012.710762Victoria Bates ‘Misery Loves Company’: Sexual Trauma, Psychoanalysis and the Market for Misery, Journal of Medical Humanities 33, no.22 (Mar 2012): 61–81.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-012-9172-x Soyoung Park “Survival is the Least of My Desires”: Testimony, Shame, and Desire in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Feminist Studies in English Literature 18, no.22 (Dec 2010): 57–85.https://doi.org/10.15796/fsel.2010.18.2.003 Introduction, (Jan 2009): 1–34.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391401-001 Historical Trauma and the Performance of Talking Heads, (Jan 2009): 35–76.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391401-002 The Embodied Immediacy of Direct Action, (Jan 2009): 77–111.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391401-003 Related Bodies, (Jan 2009): 113–150.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391401-004 Queer Anachronism and the Testimonial Space of Song, (Jan 2009): 151–183.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391401-005 Gay Cinephilia and the Cherished Body of Experimental Film, (Jan 2009): 185–215.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391401-006 Sound, Image, and the Corporeal Implication of Witnessing, (Jan 2009): 217–240.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391401-007 Afterword, (Jan 2009): 241–252.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391401-008 Notes, (Jan 2009): 253–290.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391401-009 Bibliography, (Jan 2009): 291–306.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391401-010Pramod K. Nayar Trauma, Testimony, and Human Rights: Women's Atrocity Narratives from Postcolonial India, South Asian Review 29, no.11 (Dec 2017): 27–44.https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2008.11932576Maria Papadima II. Caught between Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Researching Child Abuse, Feminism & Psychology 17, no.33 (Jul 2016): 302–308.https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353507079083Anne Wagner, Jamie Lynn Magnusson Neglected realities: exploring the impact of women’s experiences of violence on learning in sites of higher education, Gender and Education 17, no.44 (Aug 2006): 449–461.https://doi.org/10.1080/09540250500145189Pam Green Lister Feminist Dilemmas in Data Analysis, Qualitative Social Work 2, no.11 (Nov 2016): 45–59.https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325003002001280 Carine M. Mardorossian Toward a New Feminist Theory of Rape Mardorossian, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27, no.33 (Jul 2015): 743–775.https://doi.org/10.1086/337938

French Women in Revolutionary Action and Thought

French Women in Revolutionary Action and Thought Doris and Paul Beik. Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade. Selected, Translated, and with an Introduction to Her Life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. xxi +195 pp. ISBN 0-252-31163-2 (cl); 0-253-20766-5 (pb). Claire Goldberg Moses and LesUe Wahl Rabine. Feminism, Socialism, and French Romanticism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.371 pp. ISBN 0-253-20818-1 (cl); 0-253-20818-1 (pb). Marilyn Yalom. Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory. New York: Basic Books, 1993. xi + 308 pp. ISBN 0-465-09263-2 (cl). Marilyn J. Boxer These three books, by and about French women who participated in a half-century of revolutionary action and ideas, offer insight into the ways that sex differences affect human experience and perception and also into the methods that contemporary scholars use to reveal and interpret women's lives. Each book is intended for a different audience. AU three introduce readers directly to the words of women generaUy Utile known until the 1970s, when Flora Tristan reemerged in France and the United States as the subject of a dozen theses, dissertations, articles, and biographies , and until the 1980s, when authors of anthologies and texts destined for women's history and women's studies classes began to translate and publish selections from their works. By translating a substantial selection of excerpts from Tristan's major works, Doris and Paul Beik now make more widely avaüable her contributions to early nineteenth-century travel literature, social criticism, and feminist analysis. The book also documents her unique and lonely effort to mobihze the French working classes for social and economic transformation . Marilyn Yalom, as a teUer of tales of interest to a wider audience, adds to the vast popular Uterature on the French Revolution whüe also alerting scholars to a little used resource, women's memoirs. "No other Uterature in the Western world," she states, "offers such an early treasure of women recording their personal histories within the context of a great political cataclysm" (p. 11). Whüe relating and commenting on the Uves of this female "generation of 1789," Yalom skiUfuUy interweaves their observations and reflections. Claire Moses's and LesUe Rabine's innovative collaboration in social history and Uterary criticism also aUows their subjects to speak for them- © 1995 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 7 No. 4 (Winter) 152 Journal of Women's History Winter selves. Drawing on feminist and Uterary theory, the authors analyze both "word" and "act," "text" and "context," and the problems posed by their relationship. They devote somewhat over half their pages to the "word," through their translations of essays and correspondence written by working -class women of the Saint-Simonian movement including Tristan. Whüe the words and texts they make avaUable in EngUsh may appeal to a wide range of scholars in modern history, Uterature, and biography, their interpretation wül reach primarily readers prepared to interpret people's Uves in poststructuraUst terms. The French Revolution is often credited with shaking up the pieces of an older world so that roles and relationships of men and women of aU classes and stations could be reshaped into new forms. Women's reflections on their experiences of that event and its consequences offer a useful background for discussion of women's lives amid the social movements of the next half century. Yalom's memoirists were eyewitnesses to upheavals that tested their personal resources and their abüity to respond actively to challenges for which they were never prepared. They were often forced to defy both custom and law. Most were aristocrats and few supported the Revolution. The new world was not to their liking, and all portrayed themselves as victims. As Yalom points out, they "leave records of the connection of victimization and gender" (p. 7). But the interest for us, I believe, lies in the opposite direction. Without, I hope, trivializing the suffering of women who lost beloved husbands, fathers, and brothers to guillotine, sword, or gun; children to illness and malnutrition; or even their own Uves, one can find more significance in the process through which each...

Women's Memories, Women's Memoirs of the Great War

Les considerations generales sur la production en recits autobiographiques et memoires temoignant de la premiere guerre mondiale d'auteurs feminins sont accompagnees, comme support au developpement d'une collection en bibliotheque, de titres repertories dans le catalogue du reseau de l'OCLC

Revising memory: women's fiction and memoirs in seventeenth-century France

Revising memory: women's fiction and memoirs in seventeenth-century France

Selections from Lion Woman's Legacy: An Armenian-American Woman's Memoir

Selections from Lion Woman's Legacy: An Armenian-American Woman's Memoir

The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb

CONTENTS: PART I: Spiritual Quest; 1. A Tradition of Victorian Autobiography; 2. My Apprenticeship: the Shape of Life. PART II: The Divided Self; 3. Female Traditions of Autobiography: Memoir and Fiction; 4. My Apprenticeship: Autobiographical Resolution. PART III: 'Creed' and 'Craft': Social and Political Transformations, 1870-92; 5. Women's Work; 6. Social Investigation; 7. Fabian Socialism. PART IV: Authorship; 8. The Writing of My Apprenticeship. Conclusion: On the Soviet Union. Biographers of Beatrice Webb and historians of Fabianism have neglected certain aspects of Webb's early life and work which, if taken into account, would contribute to a reassessment of her historical and literary importance. Her autobiography, My Apprenticeship, written after World War I, and the diary she kept for some seventy years reveal a Beatrice Webb that bears little resemblance to the calculating and confident super-rationationlist of caricature and legend. Out of these texts emerges a woman engaged in the search for vocation and for resolution to the convergent crises of spiritual and sexual identity. The themes and structure of My Apprenticeship mark it as the first British woman's memoir to be written in the mode of the Victorian autobiography of cries and conversion. The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb examines the social and intellectual movements of the 1880s and 1890s that enabled Webb to live a productive and celebrated life. Her professional evolution, from social service to social investigation and from Spencerian Individualism to Collectivism unfolded within the context of various historical changes in these last Victorian decades: the entry of large numbers of middle class women into areas of social service; the discovery of poverty in London' East End; the beginnings of empirical sociology and the socialist revival of the 1880s. Webb turned to the writing of autobiography in the aftermath of a crisis of confidence and faith wrought by the events of World War I. The war, which she regarded as a movement back into barbarism, made a mockery of her belief in the inevitability of gradualness, challenged the Fabian's ability to account for the irrationality of human behavior with a rationalist calculus, and called into question the real usefulness of all that Webb and her husband, Sidney, had accomplished. Despairing at the lack of progress in the evolution of society, Webb sought the evidence of private, personal progress in the events of her own life. Her decision to write an autobiography signaled, however indirectly, crises in her private and public lives, including her dedication to Fabiansim, her career as social scientist, and her marriage. Publisher's description.

Death in Childbirth: Seventeenth-Century English Tombs and Their Place in Contemporary Thought

On a large group of 17th-century English tombs the deceased women are represented with swaddled infants. Inscriptions usually indicate that these women died in childbirth. The new concern with the perils of childbirth that these tombs seem to express is paralleled in several contemporary paintings and is echoed in contemporary poetry, prayer books, women's memoirs, and obstetrical treatises. The tombs, paintings, and associated literature are related to the changing structure of the family and particularly to new attitudes towards the woman as wife and mother.

A Feminist Autobiography; Teta, Mother and Me: An Arab Woman's Memoir

Jean Said Makdisi's Teta, Mother and Me: An Arab Woman's Memoir is a feminist memoir of personal inquiry and historical research. It opens with a “Prelude” which tells the story of the process of writing the book, and Jean Makdisi's concern with form and genre appears from the opening lines of the book. By pointing out the time distance between the decision to write and the act of writing, she is indirectly referring to generic issues related to memoir as a literary genre. Moreover, the “Prelude” situates Jean Makdisi's identification with her mother and grandmother (Teta), as well as her intention to explore and connect the lives of three generations of women in her family, which she expresses by saying: “I was going to write a loving double biography of my mother and grandmother from the vantage point of my own unsettling experiences as a modern Arab woman”