Article
The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order
Provenance: Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
(2016)
Abstract
Understanding non-archivist perspectives is essential to helping archivists work with researchers. Kate Eichhorn’s The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order provides an excellent researcher’s perspective on the importance of archives to society as well as for research. She goes in-depth on her research activities, why archives are crucial to the advancement of scholarship, and how archivists do their jobs. With the history of feminist movement from the 1990s forward as the foundation, she explores how it is because of archives that anyone can study the developments and connections of feminist history. Eichhorn’s experience is a demonstration of how a researcher not just utilizes archives, but how research leads to a deep appreciation and understanding of why archives exist and their importance to society. She states that "The Archival Turn in Feminism seeks to locate archiving and librarianship as forms of applied theorizing with far-reaching implications for activism and scholarship in the twenty-first century and to take seriously the possibility of the archive and special collection as central rather than peripheral sites of resistance" (p. 23).
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
Citation Information
Cheryl Oestreicher. "The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order" Provenance: Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists Vol. 33 Iss. 2 (2016) p. 170 - 173 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/cheryl_oestreicher/33/