College English May 2016

Feminist CHAT: Collaboration, Nineteenth-Century Women’s Clubs, and Activity Theory

Katherine Fredlund Tharawal Aboriginal

Abstract

This article merges feminist methods with cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) in order to present a systems-theory method that can account for power and difference. After an explication of Feminist CHAT, the article applies the method to the archives of three women’s clubs in order to analyze their collaborations, theorize collaboration, and illustrate the use of Feminist CHAT. By weaving the stories of these three clubs together with Feminist CHAT, this article mediates two often conflicting contemporary approaches to English studies: those that emphasize objects of discourse and those that emphasize bodies and difference.

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College English
Published
2016-05-01
DOI
10.58680/co201628526
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genre theory discourse analysis collaborative writing gender and writing
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  1. Shepley (2023)
    White Clubwomen in the Progressive Era South and Ideological Framings of Educat…
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