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Munz, Stevie Accepted Dissertation 7-20-16 Su16.pdf (14.47 MB)
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The Farmer's Wife: An Oral History Project
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Munz, Stevie M.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1469038905
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2016, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Communication Studies (Communication).
Abstract
This oral history project explores the everyday experiences of farmers’ wives who live and work on family farms in western Illinois. Through oral history interviews, I examined how farmers’ wives narrated their life stories and what these stories tell us about women’s gendered lives in rural farming spaces. My inductive analysis is informed by ethnographic and oral history interviewing practices, fieldwork experiences, and resultant field notes. Analysis of the women’s stories reveals how the family farm is a site where the private and public spaces of life are entangled, and the experiences of social isolation, family hardships, housework, fieldwork, and child-rearing are gendered and excluded from consideration in the grand narrative of family farming in Midwest America.
Committee
Devika Chawla (Advisor)
Pages
282 p.
Subject Headings
Communication
Keywords
Farm wife
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Midwest
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Midwest Farming
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Identity
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Narrative Theory
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Oral History
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Munz, S. M. (2016).
The Farmer's Wife: An Oral History Project
[Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1469038905
APA Style (7th edition)
Munz, Stevie.
The Farmer's Wife: An Oral History Project.
2016. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1469038905.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Munz, Stevie. "The Farmer's Wife: An Oral History Project." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1469038905
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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