@article{fdi:010083728,
  title = {{A}utobiographies and the writing of women's history : the example of {H}iwot {T}effera's {T}ower in the {S}ky},
  author = {{G}uidi, {P}ierre},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{A}s archives, autobiographies allow analysis of the reciprocal relations between individuals, broader social groups, social structures, and contexts. {F}or decades they have served as valuable sources for feminist historians. {T}hey uncover voices often silenced or distorted in institutional archives and historical works. {M}oreover, autobiographies make it possible to study how gendered structures work and how power relations are experienced and possibly manipulated by women. {T}he several autobiographies recently published by former activists of the {E}thiopian revolution are essential sources for historians' understanding of the mechanisms of participation in the revolutionary movement. {D}rawing on selected themes from {H}iwot {T}effera's famous work, {T}ower in the {S}ky, this article questions the intensity of the student generation of the 1970s' revolutionary commitment and the gendered dimensions of activism. {T}o do so, it focuses on social relations such as love and the ways of belonging to a group, on the rational and emotional drivers of engagement, and on the gendered division of activist work. {L}astly, it defends the relevance of autobiography as a multilayered archive that is particularly suitable for the analysis of intricate processes.},
  keywords = {{ETHIOPIE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{A}nnales d'{E}thiopie},
  volume = {33},
  numero = {},
  pages = {217--231},
  ISSN = {0066-2127},
  year = {2020},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010083728},
}