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“TO SECURE LITERARY CULTURE AND PROMOTE A SOCIAL FEELING”: RURAL OHIO CLUBWOMEN AS STEWARDS OF LOCAL LITERACY PRACTICE, 1915 —

Petronelli, Barbara Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1544379283827385

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2018, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
This study investigates the literacy practice of one rural women’s club that has been meeting in a small, agricultural region of Ohio for over a century. The question that drove my research asks how and why a rural women’s literary club has continued its practice long after most clubs from the women’s club movement have disappeared. The methodology employed is feminist in approach and findings emerged from analysis of three data sources. The results of my study suggest that within the rhetorical space of their practice, clubwomen perform a traditional, rural, gendered identity that stewards their values of “literary culture” and “a social feeling” within the context of their rural values of localism, familism, and historicism (Chenowith and Galliher, 2004). This dissertation adds to Silvia Scribner’s (1988) metaphors of literacy as adaptation, literacy as power, and literacy as social grace, by arguing that the rural women’s practice also suggests two additional metaphors: literacy as belonging and literacy as performance.
Pamela Takayoshi, PhD (Advisor)
231 p.
Aging; Agriculture; American History; American Studies; Communication; Composition; Cultural Anthropology; Cultural Resources Management; Education; Educational Theory; Families and Family Life; Folklore; Gender; Gender Studies; History; Home Economics; Linguistics; Literacy; Regional Studies; Religious History; Rhetoric; Social Research; Social Structure; Sociolinguistics; Sustainability; Womens Studies

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  • Petronelli, B. E. (2018). “TO SECURE LITERARY CULTURE AND PROMOTE A SOCIAL FEELING”: RURAL OHIO CLUBWOMEN AS STEWARDS OF LOCAL LITERACY PRACTICE, 1915 — [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1544379283827385

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Petronelli, Barbara. “TO SECURE LITERARY CULTURE AND PROMOTE A SOCIAL FEELING”: RURAL OHIO CLUBWOMEN AS STEWARDS OF LOCAL LITERACY PRACTICE, 1915 —. 2018. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1544379283827385.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Petronelli, Barbara. "“TO SECURE LITERARY CULTURE AND PROMOTE A SOCIAL FEELING”: RURAL OHIO CLUBWOMEN AS STEWARDS OF LOCAL LITERACY PRACTICE, 1915 —." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1544379283827385

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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