Construction Life Stories
How important is gender in the construction of life stories? Refer to specific life stories or films in your answer.
“There is no ungendered reality or perspective, but rather the power to declare one universal and the other partial.”
(Catharine MacKinnon 1989)
My auntie was born in 1925. Since I was a child she always insisted on teaching me, recalling and using her personal life story as a respectable and orthodox example to follow. How a proper woman supposed to behave within the domestic domain or how a proper daughter had to obey her father. I have always asked myself why my two brothers did not receive the same treatment or why I was the only one been told so much about family memories. She is nowadays 86 years old and every …show more content…
The life stories appearing in the southern Yukon territory tell us, at the same great extent, about the present and the past, about the idea of community and individual experiences.
Her fieldwork in Yucon territory is greatly focused on how stories might be used by these people to establish connections between themselves and the environment, the present and the past:
“The endurance of oral tradition in the Yucon speaks to the persistence and adaptability of narrative as a framework for bridging social fractures that threaten to fragment human relationships.” (p24)
Moreover, she looks at how narratives are used by the ancestors to pass the new generations significant pieces of history and memory. Doing so, events are told and retold highlighting and selecting particular moments or actions from the past and, at the same time, the most horrible or insignificant parts are restrained or hidden by the speaker 's …show more content…
“People remember their kin, their marriages, and to a great extent the major and the minor events of their lives, through memories of land and place.(p108)
More than referring to gender as a fixed tool, in this case, life stories are constituted considering the history of spaces and places; memories are told and retold following the movement of people, describing the places they passed through and contemplating the specific space they inhabited.
In doing so, the Podhale inhabitants create the path towards the making of kinship.
Additionally, they emphasise whatever is similar or appropriate to their relationships in order to transform what is considered coming from the outside world into something that becomes shared and used within the inside domain.
Besides making kinship, by telling stories the oldest villagers provide the future generations with opinions and suggestions about right or wrong relationships, also on genuine or inappropriate
“There is no ungendered reality or perspective, but rather the power to declare one universal and the other partial.”
(Catharine MacKinnon 1989)
My auntie was born in 1925. Since I was a child she always insisted on teaching me, recalling and using her personal life story as a respectable and orthodox example to follow. How a proper woman supposed to behave within the domestic domain or how a proper daughter had to obey her father. I have always asked myself why my two brothers did not receive the same treatment or why I was the only one been told so much about family memories. She is nowadays 86 years old and every …show more content…
The life stories appearing in the southern Yukon territory tell us, at the same great extent, about the present and the past, about the idea of community and individual experiences.
Her fieldwork in Yucon territory is greatly focused on how stories might be used by these people to establish connections between themselves and the environment, the present and the past:
“The endurance of oral tradition in the Yucon speaks to the persistence and adaptability of narrative as a framework for bridging social fractures that threaten to fragment human relationships.” (p24)
Moreover, she looks at how narratives are used by the ancestors to pass the new generations significant pieces of history and memory. Doing so, events are told and retold highlighting and selecting particular moments or actions from the past and, at the same time, the most horrible or insignificant parts are restrained or hidden by the speaker 's …show more content…
“People remember their kin, their marriages, and to a great extent the major and the minor events of their lives, through memories of land and place.(p108)
More than referring to gender as a fixed tool, in this case, life stories are constituted considering the history of spaces and places; memories are told and retold following the movement of people, describing the places they passed through and contemplating the specific space they inhabited.
In doing so, the Podhale inhabitants create the path towards the making of kinship.
Additionally, they emphasise whatever is similar or appropriate to their relationships in order to transform what is considered coming from the outside world into something that becomes shared and used within the inside domain.
Besides making kinship, by telling stories the oldest villagers provide the future generations with opinions and suggestions about right or wrong relationships, also on genuine or inappropriate