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Sites of Memory: Women's Autoethnographies from Rural France
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2002
- pp. 95-109
- 10.1353/bio.2002.0012
- Article
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At the same time that France's family farms declined in number during the latter half of the twentieth century, they increasingly became a site of collective memory and nostalgia. The published life stories of three French farm women, born in 1880, 1900, and 1919, illustrate the discursive frameworks through which gendered rural lives are constructed in contemporary autobiographical genres.