From California to Kufr Nameh and Back: Reflections on 40 Years of Feminist Oral History

Abstract

Forty years ago, in 1972, I set off to the San Francisco Bay area in search of an apocryphal 104-year-old suffragist. In those early days of the US feminist oral history movement, one of my goals was to collect the stories of women. Like others whose work was inextricably linked to the women’s liberation movement, I was determined to uncover our hidden history and, in the process, empower women and energize our movement.