The Department of Humanities, the Centre for Feminist Research, and the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies collaborated to launch and celebrate Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II, edited by Humanities Professor Marlene Kadar and Jeanne Perreault on November 4, 2015.
Working Memory speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memorializing these wartime experiences. The contributors follow their subjects’ tracks and deepen our understanding of the experiences from the imprints left behind. These efforts are a part of the making of history, and when the process is as personal as many of the contributors’ research has been, it is also the working of memory.