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Communities Activated: Stories From Behind The Scenes Of Progress, Avery C. Edenfield, Ariel Malan, Mel Payne, Roberto Lopez, Blair L. Barfuss, Latrisha Fall
Communities Activated: Stories From Behind The Scenes Of Progress, Avery C. Edenfield, Ariel Malan, Mel Payne, Roberto Lopez, Blair L. Barfuss, Latrisha Fall
Intersections on Inclusion: Critical Conversations about the Academy
In 2020, USU received the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, recognizing USU has great work to do in our communities; as a land grant institution we have the responsibility to the communities in which we are located to honor the mission statement of ‘serving the public through learning, discovery, and engagement and cultivating diversity of thought and culture.’ This panel will center the voices of community leaders and change-makers dedicated to advancing progress toward equity. As we learn from panelists about their community initiatives and advocacy, participants will be invited to reflect on ways they can engage in their …
Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory And Practice For Composition Studies, Jonathan Alexander
Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory And Practice For Composition Studies, Jonathan Alexander
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Despite its centrality to much of contemporary personal and public discourse, sexuality remains infrequently discussed in composition courses and in our discipline at large. Moreover, its complicated relationship to discourse, to the very language we use to describe and define our worlds, is woefully understudied in our discipline. Talk and writing about sexuality surround us. Not only does the discourse of sexuality surround us, but sexuality itself forms a core set of complex discourses through which we approach, make sense of, and construct a variety of meanings, politics, and identities. In Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy, Jonathan Alexander argues for the development …
Women In Utah History, Patricia Lyn Scott, Linda Thatcher
Women In Utah History, Patricia Lyn Scott, Linda Thatcher
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A project of the Utah Women's History Association and cosponsored by the Utah State Historical Society, Paradigm or Paradox provides the first thorough survey of the complicated history of all Utah women. Some of the finest historians studying Utah examine the spectrum of significant social and cultural topics in the state's history that particularly have involved or affected women. The contents are as follows: A Comparison of Utah Mormon Polygamous and Monogamous Women Jessie L. Embry and Lois Kelley Innovation and Accommodation: the Legal Status of Women in Territorial Utah, 1847-96 Lisa Madsen Pearson and Carol Cornwall Madsen Conflict and …
Leave The Dishes In The Sink: Adventures Of An Activist In Conservative Utah, Alison Comish Thorne
Leave The Dishes In The Sink: Adventures Of An Activist In Conservative Utah, Alison Comish Thorne
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Alison Thorne provides a small-town Utah perspective on the progressive social movements that in the mid to late twentieth century dramatically affected American society. A born activist, Thorne has fought for women's rights, educational reform in public schools and universities, the environment, peace, and the war on poverty. Her efforts have been all the more challenging because of the conservative social and cultural environment in which she has undertaken them. Yet, Thorne, who has deep personal and familial roots in the politically conservative and predominantly Mormon culture of Utah and much of the West, has worked well with people with …