《追寻她们的人生》(五卷本)汇集了跨越时代和社会变迁的新四军女战士、新中国第一代科技与社会科学等领域的女专家和出身工农大众受到教育进入职业生涯——务工、农垦、幼教或农村教师的女性的口述史,通过她们以出生——教育——职业——婚姻、家庭、生育——老年等生命历程为线索的讲述,让读者不仅看见并重估女性在百年宏大历史叙事中常常被淹没的革命、战争、建设等公共领域做出的贡献,启示历史学者重估女性贡献的百年历史书写的意义价值;更让人们从她们生命史的追寻中,发现被忽略的职业女性在事业与家庭私域的冲突张力、生存状况之艰难、复杂和更隐秘的内在精神世界。五卷本妇女生命口述史的设计、访谈和编辑的全过程,将“理解”和“倾听”、社会责任和学术抱负有机结合,既不回避研究者的立场和目的,同时也为改变今天妇女的生存环境和状况、消除性别歧视和实现社会公正,提供了政策制定和发展计划的参照和依据。 “Pursuing Their Life” (Five Volumes) brings together women warriors and the first generation of female scientists and graduates in the fields of science and technology and social sciences across the country and society to get involved in their careers - workers, Oral histories of women in farming, kindergarten or rural teachers, through their narratives such as birth-education-job-marriage, family, childbirth-old age, etc., allow readers to not only see and reevaluate women over the centuries The contributions made by the often-overwhelmingly submerged revolutions, wars, constructions and other public spheres in the grand historical narration inspire historians to revalue the value of the centuries-old historical contributions of women; moreover, they find that they are neglected in the pursuit of their life history Professional women in the conflict between career and family private tension, difficult living conditions, complex and more intimate inner spiritual world. The whole process of designing, interviewing and editing the oral history of women’s life in five volumes combines “understanding” with “listening”, social responsibility and academic aspirations, and does not evade the position and purpose of the researcher. In order to change the living conditions and conditions of today’s women, eliminate gender discrimination and achieve social justice, they provide reference and basis for policy formulation and development plans.