Memory, Meaning, and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

by Fran Leeper Buss

Book Overview

Fran Leeper Buss, a former welfare recipient who earned a PhD in history and became a pioneer in the field of oral history, has for forty years dedicated herself to the goal of collecting the stories of marginal and working-class U.S. women. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is based on over 100 oral histories gathered from women from a variety of racial, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds, including a traditional Mexican American midwife,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472073591
• ISBN13: 9780472073597
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"