273 research outputs found
Review: Abby L. Goode, Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability
No full textIn her compelling and astute reconsideration of the development of early American agricultural thought, Abby L. Goode pays special attention to the ways that racist, nativist, eugenic, and expansionist rhetoric influenced the evolution of the concept of sustainability across America's long nineteenth century and beyond. The book begins with a helpful roadmap to demonstrate how the texts explored in Agrotopias challenge accepted views of how Thomas Jefferson's agricultural ideas informed early concepts of sustainability. Chapter 1, “No Rural Bowl of Milk: Unsustainability and the Demographic Agrarian Ideal,” examines Herman Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, along with some of his lesser-known agricultural essays. Goode argues that in Pierre, Melville highlights the anxieties of certain mid-nineteenth-century labor and agricultural reformers who advocated for the formation of small, demographically diverse farming communities that would embody what they saw as a sustainable agricultural ideal. Pierre, however, disrupts this ideal to present, as Goode writes, “the reproductive subtext of this rhetoric: the idea that sexual disorder and racial intermingling enfeeble population fertility and agricultural productivity”.This review is published as Matthew Sivils; Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability. The New England Quarterly 2023; 96 (3): 272–274. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00998. Posted with permission
Interviews: Dr. Lisa Meloncon, RHM Editor, interviews Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara Davis on their persuasion brief, “Communicating Elective Sterilization: A Feminist Perspective”
No full textDownload of the interview includes 1) transcript and 2) Appendices A, B, and C from Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara DavisThis interview is published as Meloncon, Lisa; Trauth, Erin; and Molloy, Cathryn (2019) "RHM Author Interview: Dr. Lisa Meloncon, RHM Editor, interviews Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara Davis on their persuasion brief, “Communicating Elective Sterilization: A Feminist Perspective”, Rhetoric of Health & Medicine: 2019, 2(1). Posted with permission. </p
RHM Author Interview: Dr. Lisa Melonçon, RHM Editor, Interviews Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara Davis on Their Persuasion Brief, "Communicating Elective Sterilization: A Feminist Perspective"
No full textRHM Author Interview: Dr. Lisa Meloncon, RHM Editor, interviews Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara Davis on Their Persuasion Brief, “Communicating Elective Sterilization: A Feminist Perspective.
Stuck? Diagrams Help
No full textLike digital tow trucks, diagrams have been helping people feeling stuck for thousands of years. But why? Because diagrams give us superpowers. The ability to render our ideas visually helps us move through some pretty gnarly human situations. In this keynote Abby Covert, an author and information architect, takes us on a tour of five of the superpowers that make diagrams the helpful superhero of many sensemaking stories.Abby Covert is an information architect, writer and community organizer with two decades of experience helping people make sense of messes. Abby has written two popular books, How to Make Sense of Any Mess and Stuck? Diagrams Help. She currently spends her time making things that help you to make the unclear clear, many of which she makes available for free on her website, www.abbycovert.com or at accessible price points in her popular Etsy shop, AbbytheIA. In 2022, she started The Sensemakers Club where she brings together sensemakers from different walks of life to learn from one another. Abby currently lives and writes from Melbourne, Florida, where her most important job title is "Mom.
Prisoner
No full textBio: Abby N. Lewis is a poet from Dandridge, Tennessee. She is the author of the chapbook This Fluid Journey (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and the poetry collection Reticent (Grateful Steps, 2016). Her work has appeared in Timber, The Mockingbird, The Allegheny Review, Sanctuary, and elsewhere. Follow her website: freeairforfish.com
Palms Up, Fingers Curled
No full textBio: Abby N. Lewis is a poet from Dandridge, Tennessee. She is the author of the chapbook This Fluid Journey (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and the poetry collection Reticent (Grateful Steps, 2016). Her work has appeared in Timber, The Mockingbird, The Allegheny Review, Sanctuary, and elsewhere. Follow her website: freeairforfish.com
Bradenton Mayor "Abby" Leach and Realtors
No full textBradenton Mayor Abby Leach and members of the Manatee County Board of Realtors sign a proclamation. Man at left is realtor Carl D. King, center is the mayor. Name of lady is unknown. Carl King was president of the Manatee County Historical Society from 1974 through 1977 and was the author of "Model-T Days", the story of his family's arrival in Bradenton in the 1920s and tells of Carl's entry into real estate during the Great Florida Real Estate Boom of the 1920s
Abby Williams Hill: A Case Study of Early 20th Century Environmental Thought
No full textThis paper attempts to put forward an understanding of environmental thought in the early 20th century through a case study of Abby Williams Hill. By examining her stance on environmental issues in comparison with prominent writers and naturalists who preceded her the author suggests both a logical progression of American environmental thought between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as the necessity to acknowledge the differences in perception and action towards nature that Abby Hill pursued throughout her life as an example of the necessity to understand personal and local attitudes towards broader historical themes
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family
No full textBernice Kert. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: the woman in the family
The author of Hemingway\u27s Women , which offered new insights into the sources of that famously macho writer\u27s creativity, once again illuminates the impact of a powerful female on American culture and society. Daughter of influential U.S. Senator Nelson Aldrich and wife of industrialist John D. Rockefeller Jr., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948) tactfully managed to fulfill her own interests and abilities while also satisfying the demands of a difficult husband who adored her and resented anything (including their children) that diverted her attention from him. A pioneering art collector, she was the driving force behind the founding of Manhattan\u27s Museum of Modern Art and encouraged a new appreciation of American folk art through her gifts to Colonial Williamsburg, the 18th-century Virginia town restored with her husband\u27s money. She also nudged the notoriously conservative Rockefeller family towards broader-based philanthropy and raised her six children--Babs, John 3rd, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop and David--with a commitment to public service that the siblings still honor. In this elegantly written, carefully researched and psychologically astute biography, Abby Rockefeller emerges as a loveable and intelligent woman who wielded her great privilege to a variety of socially beneficial ends.-- Publishers Weekly reviewhttps://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/the-rockefellers/1035/thumbnail.jp
Roberts, Abby I. (Death, 1892-12-13)
No full textAddress: 345 Findlay St.Age at death: 63 yrs.221/Pg 121/1892/F W M/Mass./Dr. B.P. Goode/Estep & Meyer/Spring GroveOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'RIS-ROBINSON, J'
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