MEMORY WORK
Abstract
The summer of 1987 was a very unusual one for me as I battled weekly, in a foreign land and a foreign language, over my research projects. Colleagues in various institutes in Sydney were seriously trying to follow my Marxist-feminist analysis of the introduction of high technology into the production process. And then there was Memory Work, a research method I had developed within the women's movement in the beginning of the 1980s (for a recent account of Memory Work, see Haug 2008 ). A group of Australian women quickly came together to take on this project. Sue Kippax, usually quiet and sceptical, striking in her black bob-cut, suddenly spoke up. She wrote fantastic protocols, asked questions, voiced misgivings and pushed everything forward. She invited us to her house; we drove together to another place and had long discussions in her car. It was very apparent that Memory Work had seized hold of her. In a sea of uncertainty, she became for me somewhat of an anchor. She came to Germany and visited me. I ran into her again at a conference on cognitive psychology near Berlin. We talked together in the same workshop and she encouraged me