Redemptive Memory

Women Activists and the Search for Justice

By: Miriam Davidson (Editor, Foreword by), Fran Leeper Buss

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Hardcover | 12 November 2024

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220 Pages

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This powerful last work by pioneering oral historian Fran Leeper Buss examines how painful memories of traumatic experiences can be transformed into positive action for social good. In her more than 40 years gathering the life stories of working-class women, Buss found commonalities in the ways in which her subjects faced structural inequalities of race, class, and gender, as well as sufferings caused by poverty, child abuse, gun violence and war. Some of these women subsequently went on to become participants and leaders in a variety of movements for social change. In this wide-ranging book, Buss shows how her subjects employed storytelling, art, spirituality and other methods to create sense and meaning from traumatic memories and then make positive contributions to movements for labor rights, sanctuary for Central American refugees, gun violence prevention, peace, and other causes. Buss also relates her own story of medical malpractice and disability and discusses the work of historical and contemporary thinkers on the concepts underlying her ideas. She provides unique and original insights into how women who have endured great trauma are able to redeem their memories through communal action for a better world.

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"A clear-eyed, passionate advocate for social justice, Fran Buss was driven to complete this vital work as her health failed. She coins a new term, "redemptive memory," based on decades of oral histories conducted with women survivors of violence, in order to acknowledge the courage, intentionality and profound impact of their public testimonies. We need Fran Buss's voice and these women's testimonies now more than ever."

--Susan Crane, University of Arizona

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