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Gender and the Categories of Experienced History
Author(s) -
Leydesdorff Selma
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
gender and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-0424
pISSN - 0953-5233
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0424.00166
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , gender studies , oral history , context (archaeology) , argument (complex analysis) , meaning (existential) , islam , sociology , globalization , political science , history , anthropology , psychology , medicine , law , pedagogy , archaeology , psychotherapist
This paper examines the problematic relationship between oral history and gender and women's history. The article suggests that the methodological and research problems currently facing oral historians of gender in the context of multiculturalism and globalisation can only be overcome by undertaking research that links the small, local and regional focus characteristic of much oral history to new pat‐terns of history writing so that a plurality of voices may be heard. The argument is illustrated by reference to two current research projects: a comparative study of the lives of young migrant women in six European countries; and a study of the meaning of Islam for migrant and non‐migrant women in Bangladesh, Sudan, Ethiopia, Yemen, Mali, and Senegal compared with migrant women in the Netherlands.