Reconstructing a Life: The Archival Challenges of Women's History
Sachs, Honor R.
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Title
Reconstructing a Life: The Archival Challenges of Women's History
Author(s)
Sachs, Honor R.
Issue Date
2008
Keyword(s)
Women's studies
Archives
Collaboration
Abstract
The field of women’s history emerged and developed through the
joint efforts of scholars, librarians, and archivists. When the field
emerged in the early 1970s, the combined labor of individuals in
these academic disciplines unearthed otherwise obscure archival
evidence, shaped a new framework for research, and fueled dynamic
inquiry into the historic experiences and modern understandings
of women’s lives. Despite such collaborative origins, historians do
not always incorporate a broad understanding of library and archive
practice into their scholarship. By illustrating efforts to reconstruct
the life of one eighteenth-century woman on the Kentucky frontier,
this essay illustrates how knowledge of archival collection and
provenance provides vital perspective on historic experience. Given
the long tradition of collaboration between librarians, archivists,
and women’s historians, this essay suggests that renewed attention
to such relationships will provide important new opportunities for
future research.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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