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Women's voices, women's quilts: A study of discourse pratices in a Pennsylvania quilting circle.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Women's voices, women's quilts: A study of discourse pratices in a Pennsylvania quilting circle./
Author:	Fitzpatrick, Caroline.
Description:	246 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Donald McAndrew.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-06A.
Subject:	Language, Rhetoric and Composition. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3272102
ISBN:	9780549116103

Women's voices, women's quilts: A study of discourse pratices in a Pennsylvania quilting circle.
Fitzpatrick, Caroline.

Women's voices, women's quilts: A study of discourse pratices in a Pennsylvania quilting circle. - 246 p.

Adviser: Donald McAndrew.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007.

Millions of women throughout history have participated in quilting circles as not only a means of creating warm quilts but as a way of passing on life skills, creating a sense of community, providing a voice to the silent, making political statements, and sustaining neighborhood and family histories. Quilting circles, rich with ritual and tradition, provide a fertile environment wherein to study literacy construction. Social quilting, which has been in existence for centuries, has been written about extensively in popular fiction ( How to Make an American Quilt, Otto, 1991; Elm Creek Quilters Novel Series, Chiaverini, 2000-2006), historical texts ( The American Quilt, Kirakofe, 1993; Quilting Traditions, Herr, 2000), and technical books (The Everything Quilting Book, Detrixhe, 2000), but only a few academic studies have hinted at their communication dynamics. This handful of studies, such as Gall and McArthur's (2003) use of quilts in fourth grade classes to explore Hawaiian culture, Chouard's (2003) analysis of the quilting metaphor in How to Make An American Quilt, and Udel's (2001) study of Native American quiltwork as a vehicle for political statement, have been primarily limited to the fields of anthropology, literature, and sociology. All of these studies focused on quilt-making and the quilts themselves as art, historical artifacts, political statements, or literary symbol. No study has focused on the exchange of information (verbal, written, and nonverbal) that takes place within a quilting circle or its communicative import in the communities in which it takes place. This study investigates a Pennsylvania quilting circle through participant observation that includes individual interviews, focused group interviews, and semiotic analyses of the quilts created in the group. Literate activity emerged in three categories: literacy construction, feminine discourse, and oral traditions.

ISBN: 9780549116103Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019205
Language, Rhetoric and Composition.

Women's voices, women's quilts: A study of discourse pratices in a Pennsylvania quilting circle.
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520 $a This study of a Pennsylvania quilting circle concludes with examples, voices, and discussions of the functions and practices of literacy, the blurred boundaries between speaking and writing, the multimodality of communication mediums, the circle as a social network of learning, communication for critical consciousness-raising, the collectivity of the women's endeavors, communication for power with solidarity, the shared authority of decision-making, the development of collective memory, and the use of storytelling. Final comments share ways in which this information may be developed in freshman composition classrooms, investigated in future studies, and applied toward curricular development.
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