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Reading, A. (2014). Making memory work for feminist theory. In M. EvansC. Hemmings & M. Henry The SAGE handbook of feminist theory (pp. 196-214). London: SAGE Publications Ltd doi: 10.4135/9781473909502.n12

Reading, Anna. "Making Memory Work for Feminist Theory." In The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory, 196-214. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014. doi: 10.4135/9781473909502.n12.

Reading, A 2014, 'Making memory work for feminist theory', in The sage handbook of feminist theory, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 196-214, viewed 20 September 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781473909502.n12.

Reading, Anna. "Making Memory Work for Feminist Theory." The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory. Mary EvansClare Hemmings and Marsha Henry. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014. 196-214. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 20 Sep. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781473909502.n12.

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Introduction

Someone, I say, will remember us. (Sappho, sixth century BC)

Sappho was confident that someone would remember us despite the fact that women's contributions, as now, were subject to erasure (Jarratt, 2002). As Kate Chedgzoy notes, ‘feminist scholarship is itself a work of memory that has retrieved many women from oblivion as historical actors and recorders. Its very existence bears witness to the gendered and power-laden dynamics of remembering and forgetting’ (Chedgzoy, 2007: 216). But, as Chedgzoy also recognizes, this is not simply a question of being remembered or not but also how and in what forms women and men are remembered: Sappho and her poetry are remembered arguably because, unusually for the time, she ...

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