ABSTRACT
This chapter offers critical tools to approach memory work and research into marginalized groups of women, those seeking to make connections across war zones and Armenian women who disappeared into enemy territory and who only now are being found, almost one hundred years after the genocide. It examines the questions about memory and evidence. As Cockburn argues, memory rather than being fixed in time and space is profoundly affected by the present. In the humanities and social sciences, women's oral histories and narratives were validated, even sometimes privileged, over other forms of evidence. The mostly young scholars teaching courses on women and developing programs, many of whom were also activists in the feminist movement, posited and demonstrated that the assumed objectivity of knowledge makers was a myth. Combining family history with archival research Hourig Attarian enter[s] a liminal stage, suspending all disbelief, where boundaries are blurred deliberately between memory and imagination.
