Fran Leeper Buss

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Fran Leeper Buss (born March 3, 1942 ) is an American suffragette and historian. She worked as a university pastor and lecturer in women's studies and ran a counseling center for women that she founded.

Fran Leeper Buss traveled for a long time through the USA in order to record the life stories of women of the lower social class and different ethnic origins using the method of oral history , and published three books on this. She currently teaches at the Southwest Institute for Women's Studies, University of Arizona . She lives in Tucson , Arizona with her husband and three children .

Works

  • Dignity. Lower income women tell their lives and struggles . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Mich. 1990, ISBN 0-472-06357-X
  • A foreign country. Novel . Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1994, ISBN 3-407-78246-2

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SURNAME Buss, Fran Leeper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American suffragette and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1942