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A Woman's Place Among the Pines: My Journey of Coping and Creating in the 21st Century

Mancz, Allison N.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5339-4264
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619195791473881

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2021, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, Environmental Studies.
As an English and Environmental Studies double major, I merged my passions for writing and ecology into a two-part creative thesis manuscript. During the summer of 2020, I interviewed three female environmental writers about their insights into the publishing world and what they perceived to be a woman's place in American conservation literature. I detail and analyze these women's personal perspectives, each of whom addressed the different impacts of sexism and ageism on their careers. This qualitative analysis then serves as a critical introduction to my creative work, in which I intertwine climate science with personal memoir to create a collection of four nonfiction essays. Each essay combines my attachment to the outdoors and our ailing planet with reflections on corporeal boundaries and emotional resilience as a woman today, experiencing and surviving the seasons of a pandemic.
Geoffrey Buckley (Advisor)
Thomas Scanlan (Advisor)
99 p.
American Literature; Composition; Conservation; Earth; Environmental Studies; Geography; Literature; Womens Studies
Environmental Studies; Conservation Literature; American Literature; Sexism; Ageism; Womens Studies; Creative Nonfiction; Ecofeminism; Memoir; Environmental Humanities

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  • Mancz, A. N. (2021). A Woman's Place Among the Pines: My Journey of Coping and Creating in the 21st Century [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619195791473881

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mancz, Allison. A Woman's Place Among the Pines: My Journey of Coping and Creating in the 21st Century. 2021. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619195791473881.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mancz, Allison. "A Woman's Place Among the Pines: My Journey of Coping and Creating in the 21st Century." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619195791473881

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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