ABSTRACT
The obvious questions to ask when reading Beyond Women’s Words are in what ways do the essays go “beyond” the earlier eponymous volume and what do these “beyonds” tell us about changes in feminist oral history, or as the subtitle of the previous volume put it, “the feminist practice of oral history,” in the intervening quarter-plus century? The five chapters in this first section suggest some answers, not incidentally because three of them are written by scholars whose work also appeared in the first Women’s Words. 1 It is to these we turn first.
