UI electronic subscription, Author analyzes the history, methods and impact of a radio program, "We say what we think," produced by a group of Dane County rural women during this period. Offers perspectives on how the Extension Service encouraged domesticity as the role of rural women. "Linking domesticity to the trope of progress in this way kept rural women from discussing the changes taking place around them." Author also comments on marginalization of rural sociology as a discipline in the academy.
Attwood, Gillian (author), Castle, Jane (author), and Smythe, Suzanne (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Lesotho: Routledge, London, England
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37092
Notes:
See C37085 for original, Pages 139-158 in Anna Robinson-Pant (ed.), Women, literacy and development: alternative perspectives. Routledge, London, England. Routledge Studies in Literacy. 259 pages., REFLECT - Regenerated Freirean Literacy through Emplowering Community Techniques. Combines the work of the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, and the participatory development methodology known as Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA).
Online via UI Library electronic subscription., Authors used the Positive Deviance approach to identify the effective communication practices of rural women entrepreneurs in Uttar Pradesh, India, who succeed against overwhelming odds. A variety of participatory processes and liberating structures - improv theater, personal storytelling, discovery and action dialogues, and card-sorting games - were used to identify the highly uncommon practices of these entrepreneurs.
