How to Historicize the Invisible and Inaudible Women's Experiences? : Thesaurus Construction of Women's Oral History and Gender Politics

Women’s oral history has a distinctive nature in that these are based on the daily experience and women’s life history. Generally women have tendency to narrate their life histories focusing on birth, marriage, childbirth, illness and death of family members. Researchers also have paid attention to interpret and analyze women’s subjective experience and the character of women’s narratives. So we are developing thesaurus of women’s oral history in the light of the attribute of women’s oral discourses. This will shed light on exclusion and marginalities of women’s experience considering the implication of gender and sexuality, family and labor in women’s life history.