HIST 3531 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sex Segregation, Informal Sector
1 Apr 2015
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Joan sangster, telling our stories: feminist debates and the use of oral history, . Women"s history review, v. 3, issue 1 (1994): 86-100. Oral history not only redirects our gaze to overlooked topics, but it also a methodology directly informed by interdisciplinary feminist debates about our research objective, questions and use of interview material. Why and how women explain, rationalize and make sense of their pst offers insights. Wage earning women in large factories in peterbrough canada from 1920 to end of. How gender, race and class are structural and ideological relations and shaped the. Many women reconstructed past using bench marks of their family life cycle. Class shaped peoples recollections in starks as well as subtle way. Oral history may also illuminate the collective scripts of a social group, revealing for. Women in the informal economy is undervalued and forgotten. Sex segregation and gender hierarchy persisted in the canadian wartime workforce.
