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Book SynopsisBuilding on the early leadership of Frigga Haug in her groundbreaking Female Sexualization: A Collective World of Memory (1987), this book provides a collection of contemporary perspectives on memory-work from researchers in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, and the United States, and from the disciplines of education, marketing, sociology, psychology, masculinity studies and social work practice. With respect to the method itself, the authors considered emerging issues and describe the ways in which they have altered or appropriated the method, researcher voice and authority, and consistency between the aims of memory-work and their research. Part I focuses on Frigga Haug''s evolving method. In Part II, the different ways in which memory-work has been variously applied in specific domains are explored by Betty Johnston (mathematical identities), Glenda Koutroulis (menstruation), Karin Widerberg (research and teaching), Bob Pease (practices of profeminist men to promote
Table of ContentsPart 1 Part 1: Introduction 2 Chapter 1: Philosophy and Overview of Memory-work 3 Chapter 2: Memory-work: A Detailed Rendering of the Method for Social Science Research Part 4 Part 2: Stretching Memory-work 5 Chapter 3: Practicing Collective Biography 6 Chapter 4: Messing with Memories: Feminist Poststructuralism and Memory-work Part 7 Part 3: Dissecting the Mundane 8 Chapter 5: Actively Mathematical: Alienation and Delight Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Having a Go at Memory-work as Sociological Method: Experience of Menstruation 10 Chapter 7: For the Sake of Knowledge: Exploring Memory-work in Research and Teaching 11 Chapter 8: Mothers and Sons: Using Memory-work to Explore the Subjectivities and Practices of Profeminist Men 12 Chapter 9: Pedagogical Uses of Memory-work through Family Immigration Stories 13 Chapter 10: Schooling and Socialization: Memory-work with Preservice Teachers 14 Chapter 11: From Being Excluded to Giving Voice: Memory-work, Gender, and Marketing
