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As a history PhD student at the turn of the twenty-first century, I was a big fan of feminist historian Joan W. Scott, and in particular her 1991 essay ‘The Evidence of Experience’ in which she issued a challenge to what was then the new privileged status of personal experience as historical evidence.
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Simic, Z. (2015). Wog Westie Feminist. In: Michell, D., Wilson, J.Z., Archer, V. (eds) Bread and Roses. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_5
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