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Women
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PROVO, Utah (AP) ? Half of
America's history may be in the
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writings of women, said a Brigham
Young University professor.
Elouise Bell, assistant professor of
English at BYU, wants to pry it
loose and get it published.
Bell is one of 25 college
professors across the nation
designated by the Modern
Language Association in conjunction
with the National Endowment
for the Humanities to
teach courses on the preservation
and examination of women's nontraHitinnol
literature
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Not to be confused with jthe
writings of such authors as George
Eliot or Louisa May Alcott, the
documents these professors want
to examine include "informal" or
"vernacular" literature from
journals, letters and diaries.
It is there, Bell said, that the real
heartbeat of America is stores: the
drama of the Westward pioneering
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War I and World War II, the social
issues of prohibition and childlabor
laws. With only a few exceptions,
the female side of these
dramas has never been heard, she
said.
"For generations now, we have
published the journals and letters
of men ? the leaders in military
circles, business, government and
religion. We have had the male
Doint of view because that was the
power point of view but now we
want to find out what was happening
on the dark side of the
moon," said Bell.
"Women were not just sitting
back and knitting. They were not
passive members just kind of
going along for the ride. They were
also shapers. The purpose of
exhuming these journals is to get a
little better perspective of what
our side of the human race has
been doing all these years."
Bell thinks there will be some
surprises as more journa.'s surface
and are corroborated by existing
material.
"We've had all sorts of myths
and malignings to the effect that
women couldn't be friends, women
were catty, and a host of other
equally destructive and invalid
assumptions. But recent evidence
indicates that the reality was
otherwise," she said.
She cited the work of scholar
Carrol Smith-Rosenberg, whose
examination of thousands of letters
established that women's
emotional investments in the 18th
and 19th centuries were often in
other women ? their mothers,
sisters, daughters, cousins, and
friends ? rather than in their more
remote husbands.
Another surprise may have to do
with women's relationships to their
regions, Bell pointed out. For men,
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SG recruits
paperboys
Student Government is
recruiting students to sell subscriptions
and deliver The State
ana l oumiDia itecora newspapers
on campus.
Students will be assigned to
districts and receive $1 for each
subscription sold and a salary of
4.8 cents for each newspaper sold.
The State will pay an additional 12
cents for each Sunday newspaper.
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A special subscription rate of $10
will be offered to USC students by
The State, Columbia Record will
offer a $7.00 rate for a six-day
delivery.
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the SG Office before Wednesday
for any information regarding for
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regional differences were
significant because of their work ?
farming on the plains, mining in
the mountains, raising cattle on
the prairies, fishing off the
seacoasts.
But journal examination is
beginning to show that for women,
daily work remained pretty much
the same whether they were in
Arizona or Oklahoma, the Dakotas
or California. What really mattered
were the friends and family
they were with, or separated from.
"The Mountain states region,
and Utah in particular, should
contain more journals and diaries
by women than any other in the
country," Bell said. "I cannot
imagine a state that would have
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"From the earliest days of
Mormonism, members have been
strongly urged to keep personal
journals, and many of the Utah
pioneers did so, compiling literally
volumes."
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