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This chapter examines feminist activism and archiving within the globital memory field, arguing that digital memory is now a crucial part of feminist resistance to inequalities within patriarchal societies. It examines a project by Fuel Theatre in 2013–2015 called Phenomenal People, which mobilises new memories of women from around the world, including the script and performance of Anna Reading’s A Letter to My Daughter. The chapter argues that consciously mobilised feminist memories transform the legacy of unequal gendered memories that dominate the cultural inheritance of women and men. It finishes with a summary of Gender and Memory in the Globital Age before considering the theoretical implications of the book for broader theories of gender, memory and technologies.
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Reading, A. (2016). Globital Stories. In: Gender and Memory in the Globital Age. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-35263-7_8
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