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Writing Women's History: Starting with Your Mother
Writing Women's History: Starting with Your Mother
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Author: Marilyn Norry Publisher: Mothership Stories Society Format: Softcover # of Pages: 180 Pub. Date: 2018 ISBN-10: 098798442X ISBN-13: 978-0987984425
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About the Book:
My Mother's Story is a worldwide campaign with the mandate
to encourage the writing, collecting, and performing of stories
written by daughters and sons about their mothers.
Writing Women's History: Starting with Your Mother
is the workbook for My Mother's Story, outlining the
challenge, exercises and encouragement needed to make sure women's
history is saved by following a writing recipe: the facts of your
mother's life from beginning to end, in less than 2000 words, where
you're just a footnote. The stories collected for the project have inspired and/or fuelled
the development of an online Archive (www.mymothersstory.org),
writing workshops, books, radio and film documentaries, a form of
theatre and an entire social movement telling women's history... one
mother at a time. If
you wish you can post your mother's story there as well.
In 2004 Marilyn Norry sent a challenge to women actors in
Vancouver, Canada: write the facts of your mother's life, just the
facts, from beginning to end. It was the start of My Mother's Story, now a worldwide
campaign to empower both women and men to see their mothers as women
in their times – accomplishing goals, witnessing history, surviving
as well as they could. These are the extraordinary stories of
ordinary women that tell the truth of how women of the 20th century
truly lived. Writing about your mother in this way contributes to a
collective history where women are seen as well as heard.
Writing Women's History: Starting with Your Mother
takes you through the process of writing the story of your mother's
life, answering questions and posing more. It's a workbook, a writing
exercise, a history lesson, a meditation journal, a project, a
challenge, a manifesto, a call to action, an archive. It's the start
of many meaningful conversations; an empathy builder, a community
healer, a voice builder, a shame shatterer. By reflecting on family history and answering questions, your
writing will shed light on the past but also expose and perhaps
dissolve some of the assumptions you hold about your mother, your
writing, and what you believe is your place in the world. It will
prepare you for conversations on what roles and rules will benefit
the human race in the future.
About the Author:
Marilyn Norry is an award
winning Canadian actor who has honed her craft on stage and screen
for over 30 years. From this perspective she is able to see the
extraordinary story potential in the lives of ordinary women as well
as see how these stories could be told. Those insights started My
Mother's Story and since 2004 she has used the stories gained in
this project to stage readings, edit and publish books and lead
workshops. She lives in Vancouver and continues to find ways to
gather and tell women's history... one mother at a time.
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