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Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture in Athens County, Ohio

Stitchick, Isabel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714131030585379

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2024, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, Environmental Studies.
Inspired by the community of farmers and food producers that surrounded her, Stitchick decided to utilize her love of creative writing and film photography to deliver the stories of multiple women farmers in Athens County to the broader community. She begins by contextualizing the hegemonic systems of patriarchy that pose unique challenges and obstacles to women in agriculture. With this contextual framework in mind she aims to both inform and inspire her readers with the anthology of livelihoods she has crafted; women in agriculture are disadvantaged, yet they are pushing back, finding themselves on the forefront of agricultural innovation. This communication is also important to Stitchick in terms of reconnecting consumers to the food system that feeds them, and celebrating the hard work that goes into producing the food we eat. In her journey back to the beginnings of the food system, she found four incredible women who are not only making impressive strides within the historically male-dominated industry of agriculture, but are also simultaneously regenerating the soil, sequestering carbon dioxide, building cop resilience, and nourishing the community that surrounds them with the fruits of their labor. This anthology is a love letter to women, to Appalachia, to the unyielding whimsy of goats, the unbridled fury of geese, and to the sustainable future we can build together, one seed in the soil at a time.
Edna Wangui (Advisor)
130 p.
Agriculture; Environmental Studies; Gender Studies; Womens Studies
sustainability; agriculture; women's studies; gender studies; sustainable agriculture; Ohio

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  • Stitchick, I. (2024). Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture in Athens County, Ohio [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714131030585379

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stitchick, Isabel. Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture in Athens County, Ohio. 2024. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714131030585379.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stitchick, Isabel. "Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture in Athens County, Ohio." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714131030585379

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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