Linda Shopes to Chair Session at Oral History Association Annual Meeting

Linda Shopes, M.A. in Cultural Sustainability faculty member, will chair the "Beyond Women’s Words: Feminisms and Oral Histories, Then and Now" session at the Oral History Associations' Annual Meeting on Friday, October 12.

“It is one of a series of sessions focusing on the newly published book Beyond Women’s Words: Feminism and the Practices of Oral History in the 21st Century, in which I have a piece,” Shopes said.
The book builds on a seminal work in women’s oral history. “In 1991, Sherna Gluck and Daphne Patai published an edited collection, Women’s Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History, to which I contributed an essay co-written with my old friend Karen Olson,” she said. “The current volume consciously looks back at the earlier volume, honoring it but also going beyond. I contributed a short piece introducing one of the sections, reflecting on women’s oral history then and now.”