Bodies of Evidence - The Practice of Queer Oral History

Zusatztext Students of the LGBTQ movement will find the excerpts thought provoking. Oral historians and researchers who use oral history will profit from reading the excellent commentaries. These narratives offer pertinent insights that illustrate how perceptive scholars glean additional information from interviews. Informationen zum Autor Nan Alamilla Boyd is professor of women and gender studies, San Francisco State University and author of Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. Horacio N. Roque Ramírez is associate professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara and author of the forthcoming Queer Latino San Francisco: An Oral History, 1960s-1990s. Klappentext Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each of the fourteen chapters pairs an oral history excerpt with an original essay in which the oral historian addresses his or her methods and practices. Zusammenfassung Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each of the fourteen chapters pairs an oral history excerpt with an original essay in which the oral historian addresses his or her methods and practices.

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• Authors: Nan Alamilla Boyd, Nan Alamilla (EDT)/ Roque-ramirez Boyd
• Assisted by: Nan Alamilla Boyd (Editor), Boyd Nan Alamilla (Editor), Horacio N. Roque Ramirez (Editor), Horacio N. Roque Ramírez (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.2012
• EAN: 9780199890668
• ISBN: 978-0-19-989066-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Oxford Oral History Series; Oxford Oral History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; USA, Oral History, History: theory & methods, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, United States of America, USA, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, History: theory and methods, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics