Reflections on Women's Oral History: An Exchange

Armitage, Susan; Gluck, Sherna Berger

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“…This of course includes the narrator's subjectivity in terms of how s/he makes sense of their life events (Abrams, 2010). Life history approaches embrace the voices of the marginalised, exploring the fluidity of experiences and subjectivities as well as the interaction with the wider environment (Armitage and Gluck, 1998). All these features of qualitative life history approaches are enhanced when the research analyses a very small sample of narratives in some depth (Guy, 2010).…”

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Discourses of entrepreneurial leadership: Exposing myths and exploring new approaches

Dean

Ford

2017

International Small Business Journal

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This article explores gender and entrepreneurial leadership, notably the meanings female entrepreneurs ascribe to notions of entrepreneurial leadership. Drawing from interviews with female business owners, the article questions the dominant hegemonic masculine entrepreneurial leadership model as well as that reportedly associated with women. Research findings illuminate the fluidity and variability of the entrepreneurial leadership construct. Our feminist poststructural lens and critical leadership stance adds new insight into the multiple subjectivities of entrepreneurs and surfaces contradiction and tension that shape the very sense of their entrepreneurial selves. By questioning accepted knowledge, this research offers new perspectives on the multiple realities of entrepreneurial leadership, which should be heeded by policy makers, academics and practitioners alike.

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Discourses of entrepreneurial leadership: Exposing myths and exploring new approaches

Dean

Ford

2017

International Small Business Journal

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“…As she notes: 'I would put considerably more faith in the ability of some of my male colleagues in oral history to apply what we often referred to as feminist principles than I would some women who are more bound by race, class, gender, and sexual orientation'. 11 Berger confesses that she is bored by the regionalism and the dominant practice of gathering stories in a mostly uncritical fashion, wondering how 'oral history can be both a scholarly and an activist enterprise, [how] it can change our knowledge but also empower people and contribute to social change'. 12 She takes note that for many feminist oral historians (of whom a number have left the field), attention has shifted to memory, representation and meaning.…”

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“…11 Berger confesses that she is bored by the regionalism and the dominant practice of gathering stories in a mostly uncritical fashion, wondering how 'oral history can be both a scholarly and an activist enterprise, [how] it can change our knowledge but also empower people and contribute to social change'. 12 She takes note that for many feminist oral historians (of whom a number have left the field), attention has shifted to memory, representation and meaning. But for others a political motivation remains primary; the wish to give a voice to women from a silenced class, ethnicity or region is a reason to write oral histories and a way for academics to be socially engaged.…”

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Gender and the Categories of Experienced History

Leydesdorff¹

1999

Gender & History

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In the last few decades several feminist historians have argued that women's history and oral history have points of connection. 1 Oral historians began to query whether the role of methodological debates derived from oral history might enhance a new discussion on the creation of sources and the subjectivity in sources -a set of questions that has been taken up by many feminist scholars; in addition oral historians early joined those who critiqued the narrative structure of historical writing. They also focused attention on the value of micro-histories, which have become much more common now than such histories were in an earlier phase of women's history. Oral history, like sociology and anthropology, has shown the value of localised examples and detailed case studies of small groups. This trend is also becoming visible in women's history of pre-contemporary periods. From the very beginning, international oral history conferences devoted a substantial number of sessions to women's history, repeatedly exploring the theme of the disappeared, silenced, or oppositional voices of women.But many who practise oral history are wondering where to move the field in the future. Much of our work has been the writing of history grounded in the analysis of a presumably representative segment of a particular population, based on the assumption that studying a small sample by using qualitative methods can yield important new insights. In a sense oral historians' theoretical posture is akin to sociologists', but with one major difference: their careful consideration of the dimensions of time and memory. Because time and memory are inherently volatile, however, they make arguments concerning the representative nature or empirical value of a given sample complicated. At the same time, gender has been inscribed in the field, rendering women and constructions of femininity and masculinity central objects of study.In order to combine the analytical strategy of sociology, history, and the study of gender, an alternative has been found in the method of life stories through which a whole life is told by means of an interview employing careful techniques. In creating life stories, an individual's experiences are contextualised within a wider web of meanings. Analysis will,

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“…2 Portelli argues that oral history can shed new light or focus on unexplored areas of daily life. 3 Feminist historians 5,6 argue that oral history is important because it can serve both scholarly and activist purposes.…”

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Oral History and Physical Therapy: The Importance of Physical Therapy History

Yoshida

2013

Physiotherapy Canada

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The study of physical therapy history in Canada has focused mainly on the profession's origins and its development alongside medicine after World War II. 1 While it is important to document our professional origins, our history also includes local and broader community narratives across the country that need to be studied and celebrated. While physical therapy scholars have embraced the diversity of research orientations, approaches, methods, and modes of analysis in their work, one research genre that has not received much attention is oral history. 2 Adopting an oral history approach can facilitate inquiry focusing on physical therapy community effortsnarratives that have not been reproduced or showcased in our documented history.In this editorial, I briefly discuss oral history, its origins, and its unique qualities and strengths as a form of academic inquiry. I then offer a few examples of oral history/history articles written by physical or occupational therapists and show their implications for the physical therapy profession.

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Reflections on Women's Oral History: An Exchange

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Discourses of entrepreneurial leadership: Exposing myths and exploring new approaches

Discourses of entrepreneurial leadership: Exposing myths and exploring new approaches

Gender and the Categories of Experienced History

Oral History and Physical Therapy: The Importance of Physical Therapy History

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