1st Edition

Gender and Memory

By Luisa Passerini Copyright 2005
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

Luisa Passerini