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Fran Leeper Buss

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in Manchester, Iowa, The United States

March 03, 1942

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July 19, 2022

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Fran Leeper Buss was an American oral historian, ordained minister, author, teacher, social worker, photographer, and feminist. She dedicated her career to documenting the lives of marginalized women in the United States through oral history.
Born Francis Barker in Manchester, Iowa, she spent much of her childhood in Dubuque. She earned a teaching degree from the University of Iowa in 1964, a Master of Divinity from the Iliff School of Theology, and a Ph.D. in 20th-century American history from the University of Arizona in 1995.
In 1971, she co-founded the Women's Crisis and Information Center in Fort Collins, Colorado. She later served as a minister alongside her husband, David Buss, in the Campus/Community Ministry in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Fran Leeper Buss was an American oral historian, ordained minister, author, teacher, social worker, photographer, and feminist. She dedicated her career to documenting the lives of marginalized women in the United States through oral history.
Born Francis Barker in Manchester, Iowa, she spent much of her childhood in Dubuque. She earned a teaching degree from the University of Iowa in 1964, a Master of Divinity from the Iliff School of Theology, and a Ph.D. in 20th-century American history from the University of Arizona in 1995.
In 1971, she co-founded the Women's Crisis and Information Center in Fort Collins, Colorado. She later served as a minister alongside her husband, David Buss, in the Campus/Community Ministry in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she was ordained in 1976. She also taught women's studies at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, and the University of Arizona.
Buss spent over four decades collecting the stories of women facing economic and social struggles. Her first oral history project was with Jesusita Aragon, a traditional midwife, whose life story she published as La Partera: Story of a Midwife (1980). She continued her work by traveling across the country, documenting the lives of lower-income women, leading to books such as Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles (1985), Forged under the Sun: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas (1993), and Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist (2009).
In 1991, she published the young adult novel Journey of the Sparrows, which depicts the experiences of undocumented Latin American migrants in the U.S. The book has been translated into multiple languages, adapted into a play, and won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award in 1992.
Later in her career, she reflected on her decades of oral history work in Memory, Meaning, and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins (2017). The original transcripts of her interviews, along with her research materials, are housed at Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library.
Buss received the first annual Catherine Prelinger Prize in 1998 for her contributions to women's history and was recognized by the American Library Association in 2018 for her academic work. ...more

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	Journey of the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss, Daisy Cubias (Contributor) 3.68 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 1991 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forged under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas (Women And Culture Series) by María Elena Lucas, Fran Leeper Buss (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Partera: Story of a Midwife 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles : Oral Histories (Women and Culture Series) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Redemptive Memory: Women Activists and the Search for Justice by Fran Leeper Buss, Miriam Davidson (foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Memory itself is a political event. Social structures are often so powerful that they actually format memory into accepted boundaries, denying the validity of experiences outside the parameters of accepted social interpretations and distorting and fragmenting experience. Consequently, creating spaces for re-memory may be a profoundly liberating and energizing experience.”
― Fran Leeper Buss

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