In the online women’s studies classes I teach, we are studying the suffrage movement through the work of Elizabeth Cady-Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Women owe them a huge dept of gratitude! Not For Ourselves Alone is a wonderful PBS film that tells the entire story of how they paved the way for us all […]
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Not For Ourselves Alone
October 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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Women’s Popular Fiction Selections
August 21st, 2007 · No Comments
(FOLLOW-UP TO: ETHNOGRAPHY & WOMEN’S READING RITUALS)
The purpose of this ethnographic study was to determine the effect of mass-media advertising on women readers’ popular fiction selections. The determination to research this case study was based on interest resulting from readings in a recent Popular Culture graduate class and from my own enjoyable experience as a […]
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Ethnography & Women’s Reading Rituals
August 21st, 2007 · No Comments
WOMEN’S READING AND READING SELECTION HABITS
Ethnography is the study and documentation of a specific group or area of a particular culture. It is the study of cultures. Jennifer Pehlke, University of Illinois at Chicago, explains, “Ethnography is basically the study of the everyday rituals and practices of a particular group of people.” Ethnographers observe many […]
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