Epilogue: Gender Recalled

Abstract

This chapter argues that the work of women intellectuals is repeatedly forgotten and erased because both men and women fail to actively mobilise and securitise the memories of women’s research, as well as feminist artistic and activist work. This chapter thus consciously traces the genealogy of Reading’s concept of globital memory, critically capturing and tracing the earlier arguments in her published work over several decades, showing how these ideas and studies led to the ideas in Gender and Memory in the Globital Age. She calls for the stronger inclusion and integration of feminist approaches within the field of memory studies, along with the foundation of what may be termed feminist memory studies. This, Reading argues, includes the mnemologist as memory activist—telling stories, writing books, posting tweets, curating exhibitions, mobilising consciously gendered memories across every domain of life.