Redemptive Memory - Women Activists and the Search for Justice

This book, the culmination of the life's work of noted oral historian Fran Leeper Buss, combines interviews, memoir, theory, and analysis to explore the ways in which some women are able to redeem memories of traumatic experiences by going on to become social justice activists.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Memory

Chapter One
Redemption and Memory: Definitions
Chapter Two
The Complex Topic of Justice
Chapter Three
Beginnings
Chapter Four
Doing Oral History

Part Two: Trauma

Chapter Five
Trauma: Definitions
Chapter Six
Cultural Trauma: Witness and Recovery
Chapter Seven
Collective Trauma and Accompaniment of the Traumatized

Part Three: Testimony

Chapter Eight
Testimony: Definitions
Chapter Nine
Relationships in Testimony
Chapter Ten
Testifying, Silencing, and Using Symbols

Part Four: Justice

Chapter Eleven
Justice: Definitions
Chapter Twelve
Seeking Justice through Resistance
Chapter Thirteen
Alliances and Intersectionality
Chapter Fourteen
Teología de Conjunto

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Fran Leeper Buss, Ph.D. (1942-2022), was an oral historian, educator, and author of Memory, Meaning and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins.
Miriam Davidson is a journalist, author and editor whose works include Convictions of the Heart: Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement (1988), Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border (2000), and The Beloved Border: Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land (2021).

Zusammenfassung

This book, the culmination of the life’s work of noted oral historian Fran Leeper Buss, combines interviews, memoir, theory, and analysis to explore the ways in which some women are able to redeem memories of traumatic experiences by going on to become social justice activists.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Fran Leeper Buss, Buss Fran Leeper
• Mitarbeit: Miriam Davidson (Herausgeber), Davidson Miriam (Herausgeber), Davidson Miriam (Vorwort)
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781666915228
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-522-8
• Seiten: 220
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Kulturgeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice