今天，世界史壇已肯定口述史的重要性，口述史料和口述史研究法的運用已蔚然成風。利用口述史料和研究法治史所得的成果，也成了出現於上世紀的各種「新史」中的一大門類，對傳統主流史學作出挑戰。另一方面，口述史本身也受到各種新史的影響和衝擊。本文以性別史與口述史的互動為例，透過個人採訪香港製衣女工和男工的經驗，以及比較男、女工個案的研究所得，指出採性別維度治勞工口述史的重要性。

在這個作為「人民史」重要環節的勞工史研究中，女工話語與男工話語的對比，有助於理解香港的性別意識如何影響男、女工人在工作與家庭的問題上的看法，對解構家內領域這個維護固有性別關係的「最後堡壘」尤具啓發性。除措意當下性別史最前沿的「私領域」研究的開拓外，本文也論及口述史如何裨助文字史料常缺的人民史的研究，以及人民史的口述史料如何接受性別史研究法的檢驗。

EnGendering Oral History: Revealing the Implications of Work and Family for Hong Kong’s Male and Female Garment Industry Workers

The importance of oral history is well recognized in the field of historical studies today. Indeed, the use of oral history materials and methodologies has become the order of the day. Among various “new histories” that emerged in the last century, the end products of those projects in which oral history sources and methods were employed make up a prominent category, posing a challenge to traditional mainstream historiography. In the meantime, oral history itself has also been influenced and affected by various kinds of new histories. Citing the interactions between gender history and oral history as an example, this paper highlights the significance of enGendering oral labour history by referring to personal experiences in interviewing Hong Kong’s female and male garment workers and comparative studies of the personal stories of men and women working in this industry.

In this study of labour history, which is an essential part of the “people’s history”, the contrast between female and male workers in terms of their discourses on work and family may help us to understand how gender ideology in Hong Kong affects the views of male and female workers on the issue concerned. It is especially inspiring for attempts to deconstruct the domestic domain, the “last fortress” safeguarding existing gender relations. Aside from an intentional exploration of the “private sphere”, the current frontier of gender history, this work also discusses how oral history facilitates research on people’s history, which constantly suffers from the problem of insufficient written sources, and how oral source materials on people’s history can be textualized through the approach of gender history.