White Sororities and the Cultural Work of Belonging

Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion.

List of contents

1. How Sororities Harness Belonging; 2. "First, Finest, Forever": Belonging via History; 3. "I Love the Pin": Belonging through Propriety; 4. "Advancing Sorority Together": The Business of Belonging; 5. "We Live for Each Other": Belonging and Sisterhood; 6, "Hear Us Sing with One Accord": Belonging and Diversity

About the author

Charlotte Hogg, Professor of English at Texas Christian University, specializes in rhetoric and composition, women's rhetorics, rural literacies, and creative nonfiction. She is the author of From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community and co-author of Rural Literacies with Kim Donehower and Eileen Schell. They also co-edited Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy, and with Shari Stenberg, she co-edited Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-first Century. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, College English, Rhetoric Review, Peitho, Puerto del Sol, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte (Texas Christian University Hogg, Hogg Charlotte
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032460819
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246081-9
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; History, Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Humanities, Communication Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups