Drifting: Feminist oral history and the study of the last female drifters in Iceland
This paper examines the story of the last female drifters in Iceland from the voices of women who remembered them. It examines the advantages of the woman-on-woman oral history interview when obtaining women’s perspectives on women’s history. An examination of women’s narrative techniques suggests t...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/753 2023-05-15T16:44:50+02:00 Drifting: Feminist oral history and the study of the last female drifters in Iceland Eygerðardóttir, Dalrún J. Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild (HÍ) Faculty of History and Philosophy (UI) Hugvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Humanities (UI) Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland 2018-06-15 1-15 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/753 https://doi.org/10.21523/gcj2.18020101 en eng Gatha Cognition Feminist Research;2(1) http://www.gathacognition.com/article/gca28/drifting:-feminist-oral-history-and-the-study-of-the-last-female-drifters-in-iceland?show=abstract Dalrún J. Eygerðardóttir. (2018).Drifting: Feminist oral history and the study of the last female drifters in Iceland. Feminist Research, 2(1), 1-15. doi:10.21523/gcj2.18020101 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/753 Feminist Research doi:10.21523/gcj2.18020101 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Metoo Women’s history Narrative dances Women’s oral tradition Female drifters Feminist oral history Sagnadansar Flökkufólk Munnleg saga Munnleg geymd Kvennasaga Konur info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2018 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/753 https://doi.org/10.21523/gcj2.18020101 2022-11-18T06:51:38Z This paper examines the story of the last female drifters in Iceland from the voices of women who remembered them. It examines the advantages of the woman-on-woman oral history interview when obtaining women’s perspectives on women’s history. An examination of women’s narrative techniques suggests that women’s narrative style is often consistent with a conversational style; therefore it is important to construct a space in woman-on-woman oral history interviews that carries a sense of place for a conversation. It also examines the woman-on-woman oral history interview as a continuation of women’s oral tradition in Iceland, especially an oral tradition from medieval Iceland called a narrative dance (ice. sagnadans). Lastly, it examines the shared features of the Icelandic #Metoo event stories and the Icelandic narrative dances, in relation to woman-on-woman oral history interviews. Peer Reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Opin vísindi (Iceland) Feminist Research 2 1 1 15 |
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This paper examines the story of the last female drifters in Iceland from the voices of women who remembered them. It examines the advantages of the woman-on-woman oral history interview when obtaining women’s perspectives on women’s history. An examination of women’s narrative techniques suggests that women’s narrative style is often consistent with a conversational style; therefore it is important to construct a space in woman-on-woman oral history interviews that carries a sense of place for a conversation. It also examines the woman-on-woman oral history interview as a continuation of women’s oral tradition in Iceland, especially an oral tradition from medieval Iceland called a narrative dance (ice. sagnadans). Lastly, it examines the shared features of the Icelandic #Metoo event stories and the Icelandic narrative dances, in relation to woman-on-woman oral history interviews. Peer Reviewed |
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Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild (HÍ) Faculty of History and Philosophy (UI) Hugvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Humanities (UI) Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland |
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Drifting: Feminist oral history and the study of the last female drifters in Iceland |
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Feminist Research;2(1) http://www.gathacognition.com/article/gca28/drifting:-feminist-oral-history-and-the-study-of-the-last-female-drifters-in-iceland?show=abstract Dalrún J. Eygerðardóttir. (2018).Drifting: Feminist oral history and the study of the last female drifters in Iceland. Feminist Research, 2(1), 1-15. doi:10.21523/gcj2.18020101 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/753 Feminist Research doi:10.21523/gcj2.18020101 |
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