White Sororities and the Cultural Work of Belonging

by Charlotte Hogg

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032460819
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/05/2025
Series:	Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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.

Table 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