Description
"Mostly women will talk about this-lah. I remember, some of the women will gather around my mother-in-law's house. My mother- in-law wasn't involved but she was with her friends." Rita
"They'd say: 'You're a girl and so young and you're going to an entirely new place.' No one dared to do such things at that time. We were considered people with modern thought'. So, we, the 10 sisters, we're everywhere and we've been everywhere." Mui Che
The excerpts, taken from oral narration of life stories, bring to the fore the different dimensions of women's involvement and participation in affecting change from the seemingly insignificant, to the recognizably radical; from the private, to the public. Women Organising for Change ventures to debunk the manner in which main-/male-stream historiography has wiped out women's collective and individual memories and identities. In going into the unrecorded stories, Women Organising for Change also looks at the linkages, as well as the divergences, between these stories and those of the organised/main women's movement. The stories, told from a place-based perspective, not only highlight the different powered social relations, but also locate the silences and different representations of women as gendered subjects.
