Kate’s talk examines the role of feminist archives in making women’s history. In particular she’s interested in the continued appeal of ‘traditional’ archives in a digital age, and how archives can help us find different ways to narrate the story of twentieth century feminism that move beyond the problematic metaphor of the wave that pits each generation of feminists against their predecessors. The talk explores alternative ways to make feminist histories of feminist archives that and suggests a method focused less on curating or narrating the stories themselves and more on the politics and process of their production. This is then, not so much a call for more, and more diverse archive stories, but rather for greater attention to how we tell these stories and how we might tell them differently in the future.
Tags: C3R, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, feminism, feminist archives, journey to justice nottingham, women's history, Women's History Month
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