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O' Appalachian Woman: A Poetry-Based Analysis of Appalachian Women and Their Experiences of Environmental Justice

Helenberger, Sarah "Lou"
http://orcid.org/1414-1414--
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1715178199081696

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2024, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Geography (Arts and Sciences).
This research seeks to establish an understanding of Appalachian women and their experiences of environmental justice through an arts-based analysis of their poetry. I ask two research questions that inquire how Appalachian express their experiences of EJ through poetry, as well how Appalachian women associate and relate gender to environmental injustices through their poetry. To investigate this process, I perform a poetry-based analysis of ten different poems by Appalachian women. Ultimately, I find that Appalachian women engage themes of empathy, othering, and gender to portray their connections to, relationships with, and understandings of environmental justice. This research is important because it addresses intersectional themes of both geography and environmental justice, however in new ways. Ultimately, this research portrays Appalachian women’s use of poetry as an expression of their experiences with environmental justice, and as such, provides a different method and outlook from which to view environmental justice issues.
Harold Perkins (Advisor)
Edna Wangui (Committee Member)
Risa Whitson (Committee Member)
Harold Perkins (Committee Chair)
109 p.
Environmental Justice; Environmental Studies; Gender; Gender Studies; Geography
Geography, human geography, gender studies, women, Appalachia, environmental justice, arts-based research, poetry-based research, poetry

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  • Helenberger, S. "L. (2024). O' Appalachian Woman: A Poetry-Based Analysis of Appalachian Women and Their Experiences of Environmental Justice [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1715178199081696

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Helenberger, Sarah "Lou". O' Appalachian Woman: A Poetry-Based Analysis of Appalachian Women and Their Experiences of Environmental Justice. 2024. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1715178199081696.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Helenberger, Sarah "Lou". "O' Appalachian Woman: A Poetry-Based Analysis of Appalachian Women and Their Experiences of Environmental Justice." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1715178199081696

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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