#FOODHERSTORY: Food and American Women's Political Resistance from Suffrage to the Digital Age

Throughout the American experience, women have activated food as a feminist expression of resistance, inverting histories of oppression to empowerment as they campaigned for enfranchisement at the turn of the nineteenth century and used social media feeds as platforms in twenty-first century political protest movements. This dissertation investigates the role of food-related resistance in the long women’s movement in the United States by critically analyzing how women used material culture and technologies to build networks of empowerment and community. Relying on a diverse set of evidence from food-informed material culture to archival research, ethnography, oral history, and social media analysis, this work is grounded in feminist scholarship, food studies, American studies, and the digital humanities. Thinking about American women’s history not in waves, but as an additive national recipe in which ingredients, flavors, and methodologies change throughout time reflects both the successes and failures of American women’s political work overtime. Building on my concurrent work in the food media industry, I utilize first-person participant observation methods (autoethnography) to unpack the largely white-centered legacy of America’s women’s movements, their complicated relationship with food and food production, the sexism, racism, and classism that remain in the fields of food and digital media, and incessant examples of food-related appropriation, exploitation, and profit. Through the analysis of analog food-related literature, including cookbooks, zines, and recipes, this research examines how publication technologies from printing to distribution, amplified women’s voices across the nation. Investigation of the current food-related women’s movements on social media underscores the importance of community building and “born-digital” technologies. Focusing on several case studies of women food entrepreneurs and activists from suffrage to the second feminist movement and the post-Roe v. Wade protest of today, reveals a complex landscape of women’s food-related resistance. The boundaries shaped by privilege and access between virtual/digital technologies and physical, tangible spaces of labor and protest lead to critical discussions regarding American women’s food-related work particularly working class and working poor women of color in a post-pandemic, politically fractured, economically fraught America.Doctor of Philosoph

Influence of Sediment Cycling on Primary Productivity in Lake Carl Blackwell, Oklahoma

The objectives of this study were (1) to determine the influence of sediment cycling on primary productivity in Lake Carl Blackwell, Oklahoma from October 1968 to October 1969, (2) to determine the effect of sediment cycling on turbidity, and (3) demonstrate longitudinal variation for sediment depth, turbidity, dissolved oxygen and temperature, primary productivity, and chlorophyll a.Zoolog

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Impact of Student-managed Investment Fund Participation on Financial Knowledge, Financial Satisfaction and Financial Behavior

The purpose of this quantitative, nonexperimental study was to examine the effect of student-managed investment fund participation on financial knowledge, financial satisfaction, and the occurrence of best practice financial behaviors. Student-managed investment funds are experiential learning opportunities where student-led investing occurs in an academic setting. Households in the United States headed by millennials age 25-34 are exhibiting declines in retirement plan participation, financial knowledge, best practice financial behaviors and household net worth. The specific business problem addressed is the lack of financial knowledge necessary to make best practice financial behavior decisions at an early age. Participants for the study consisted of three groups of alumni who graduated between 2007 and 2016 from a selected Tennessee university: finance majors within the College of Business, College of Business students who participated in a student-managed investment fund, and all other College of Business students. An online survey was distributed to 301 College of Business graduates and 131 complete responses were received (N=131). The two methods used for statistical analysis for this study were one-away ANOVA and an analysis of two independent group means. The findings provided statistical support for the impact of student-managed investment fund participation on financial knowledge, but did not provide statistical support for the relationship between student-managed investment fund participation and financial behaviors or financial satisfaction. As such, educators and policymakers should utilize experiential learning opportunities in financial education initiatives to increase financial knowledge. Recommendations for future research include a longitudinal study of student-managed investment fund participant financial knowledge, satisfaction, and behaviors

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DARE Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 2009

Quarterly newsletter of the Dictionary of American Regional EnglishContents: "The Heart of Ohio" by Stephanie Hysmith; "Letter Z Chosen to Honor Fred Cassidy"; "Contributors to DARE in 2008"; "Coming in Volume V"; "DARE in the Limelight in Europe"; "Where Are They Now?: Berit Givens

Migrancy and changing structures: The experiences of South African women in the Eastern Cape.

This study examines the breakdown in Xhosa-speaking cultural, economic, and political structures that have been transformed in response to colonialism and apartheid. Its primary purpose was to identify indicators that influence the conditions endured by rural female-headed houses in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.The results revealed the degree of transformation of social, economic, and political structures documented in the archival record and by informants. The overall findings indicate the following: the acceleration of poverty in female headed households in rural communities; the socio-economic cleavages that exist between rural and urban households; the incorporation of Western beliefs and customs with traditional rituals; the high level of stress-related conditions amongst women (and men); and the diversity of adaptive coping strategies employed by women.The implications for this study indicated a need to improve the quality of life for members of households in Eastern Cape rural communities; for the creation of jobs and human resources in close proximity to rural households; for the development of government and non-government structures and programs to support economic parity for women and gender equality in all relevant areas of the lives of rural households.Two research survey instruments were used for data collection. One survey was designed for interviewing women in rural and urban communities. The second instrument was designed to solicit data from men. Other collateral interviews were conducted with professional, civic, and service professionals.The Seylean stress bio-cultural model was adapted for the study. This study used a holistic, multidisciplinary and ethnographic approach that included conventional anthropological qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The comprehensive research design incorporated the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, gender theory, psychology, and history

The differential impacts of telecommuting on participant worker experiences

Telecommuting affects workers across job-related and person-related dimensions. Extant research highlights the impacts on work intensification, job satisfaction, isolation and development, manager and coworker relations, work-family conflict, physical and psychological health, gender and identity, time and space. This study explores telecommuter perceptions of the most profound impacts of the work arrangement and identifies actions they or their employers can take to enhance the experience. The research focuses on the experience of this population and investigates the phenomena using a mixed-methods approach consisting of an online survey and in-depth interviews. Results indicate the most profound impacts are: work intensity, isolation and development, work-family conflict and time, and job satisfaction. Moreover, these impacts display close correlations with others analyzed. These impacts also reflected the paradoxical dynamics of telecommuting work arrangements. Participants recommended that communication technology and practicing clear, consistent, and frequent communication with colleagues would enhance the telecommuting experience

Statewide Feral Hog Abatement Pilot Project, 2006-2007

The two year Feral Hog Abatement Project was implemented in January 2006. On-site technical assistance (direct control) was provided to landowners at three pilot sites (Post Oak Savannah/Pineywoods, Blacklands Prairie and Coastal Prairie) while group educational events (indirect control) emphasizing adoption of efficient landowner-initiated control methods were conducted statewide. Both groups of clientele participating in the project and were surveyed to measure the overall economic impact of this Texas Department of Agriculture-funded initiative. Data spanned the period 2005-2007 so as to estimate the economic impact of technical assistance and educational programs to the agricultural community. Wildlife Service technicians worked with a total of 48 cooperators during the course of this project. However, eight participants did not provide data for a variety of reasons for all three years concerned. Data from all cooperators are included in the main body of this report as results from these eight participants do not significantly impact totals. The 48 participating cooperators owned or controlled 230,017 acres and estimated damages and expenditures totaling $2,228,076 directly attributable to feral hogs at the three pilot sites for 2005. These same cooperators estimated a decline in damage to$1,261,520 in 2006 as a direct result of Wildlife Service abatement efforts that included the removal of 1,930 feral hogs. In 2007, a decline in damage of $513,935 from the previous year (2006) was noted following the removal of 1,869 hogs. As a result, cooperators saved a total of$966,556 through the direct technical assistance provided by Wildlife Services during Year 1 and $513,935 in Year 2 of the project for a total savings of$1,480,491. On a scale of 0 to 10, cooperators participating in technical assistance efforts via Wildlife Services rated the services provided as a 9.1 based on the likelihood of their recommending Wildlife Services to friends, family and colleagues as a source of technical assistance for feral hog control. A Net Promoter Score of 71% among the cooperator group also indicated that Wildlife Services was efficiently assisting landowners with direct control via on-site technical assistance. The benefit to cost ratio of direct control efforts was 6.2 to 1.0 ($6.20 saved for each$1.00 invested). Texas AgriLife Extension Service (formerly Texas Cooperative Extension) educational/ outreach efforts/technical assistance (indirect control) were conducted statewide for 5,197 landowners attending 67 educational events in 66 counties and by one-on-one contacts. Educational program efforts included seminars, workshops, field days and pesticide recertification trainings. Participants were surveyed to determine damage type, control methods employed, number and type of practices to be adopted, knowledge gained and economic value of knowledge gained. A total of 2,281 participants (return rate = 44%) completed surveys. While this rate of survey return was considered to be high, it was actually higher then reported because multiple program participants often represented a single landholding, thus only one survey was completed per landholding/family in attendance at an educational event. Indirect control programming resulting in knowledge gained were valued at $2,978,821 by landowners, based on previous year’s damage estimates ($6,252,044) vs. the upcoming year’s damage estimates ($3,273,223). This equates to an average information value/economic savings of$2,108 per each of the 1,413 survey respondents answering the economic impact questions. The benefit to cost ratio of indirect control efforts was 19.6 to 1.0 ($19.60 saved for each$1.00 invested). On a scale of 0 to 10, landowners participating in educational events scored AgriLife Extension with a Customer Satisfaction Rating of 8.7 (on a 0 to 10 Likert scale) based on the likelihood of their recommending our agency as an information source and for feral hog control to their family, colleagues and friends. A Net Promoter Score of 51% among the landowner group also indicated that AgriLife Extension was efficiently reaching the needs of clientele with educational/outreach information on abating feral hog damage. The feral hog website (http://feralhog.tamu.edu) was a popular source of information on feral hogs, their control and the project’s progress with 31,374 unique hits and 76,830 pages accessed. Tremendous media interest in the project resulted in 9 television interviews, 2 news releases and 20 radio and newspaper interviews. In total, the Feral Hog Abatement Pilot Project has saved landowners/agricultural producers $4,459,312 during resulting in benefit to cost ratio of 11.42 to 1.00 ($11.42 saved for each $1.00 invested)