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Making Feminist Memory, American Style
University of Queensland, Australia
Correspondence: m.henderson@uq.edu.au
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The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation. 2nd ed. Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow, eds. 2007. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, pp. 531. £17.57, US$24.95 paperback.
Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Hokulani K. Aikau, Karla A. Erickson, and Jennifer L. Pierce, eds. 2007. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp. 384. £17.49, US$25.00 paperback.
Personal narrative and testimony have always been central to the contemporary women's movement, whether in the practice of consciousness raising, the first-person narration of the modern "women's novel," or in feminist history's emphasis on oral history, so it is not surprising that they feature prominently as forms of feminist cultural memory. Two collections of feminist personal narratives, The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation (a reissue of the 1998 edition with a new preface) and Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy, although having very