Dublin Core
Title
Phoebe Butsch Oral History
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Date Created
2018
Subject
Oral History
Description
Phoebe Butsch’s oral history traces her life from Rochester, Minnesota, to Europe, Africa, graduate school, teaching, and Colorado, centered on education, travel, history, feminism, and later lesbian self-understanding. She discusses her Mayo Clinic family background, privileged but gendered 1950s upbringing, Macalester College, teaching in Minnesota, studying in Germany, travel through Europe, South Africa, and Ghana, and the expectations placed on educated women of her generation. Butsch reflects on independence, language, teaching, intellectual life, women’s roles, and the delayed recognition of sexuality. Her story highlights education, privilege, gender expectations, travel, historical consciousness, and lesbian identity.
Type
Sound
Is Part Of
Colorado LGBTQ History Project
Format
audio/mp3