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Myers, Sally A. "Northwest Ohio Women’s Literary Clubs as Arbiters of Culture: 1880-1918," American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, August 1995.
This study uses many archival sources to put northwest Ohio small-town literary clubs into the context of the culture of their times. Drawing on earlier studies of nationwide trends by Karen Blair and Theodora Penny Martin, it points out how literary clubwomen acted as arbiters of middle-class, Protestant culture in an era of rapid change. Literary clubs reinforced conservative values, providing what Pierre Bourdieu has called “symbolic capital” to prominent families. Although clubwomen seldom questioned the status quo, their clubs nonetheless helped them to expand their horizons and to enter the public sphere for the first time.
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