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The Persuasive Power of a Quilt: A Study of a Battered Women's Prison Project

2009
Amelon, Jane
United States
From Uncoverings 2009, Volume 30 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group
Jane Amelon is a doctoral student in English Rhetoric and Textual Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She received an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Missouri, and an M.A. from Old Dominion University. She retired in 2007 from Virginia Beach City Public Schools, where she taught English and served as department head. She made her first quilt in 1976, and is an active member of the Tidewater Quilters Guild. Amelon first developed an interest in the manner in which women use persuasion when she served in the U.S. Navy as an intelligence officer.

​When AQSG added Uncoverings articles to the Quilt Index, they omitted all the illustrations, for lack of permissions. Although the articles found in the QI (1980-2010, 2012-2016) lack illustrations, they link to quilts, essays, special collections, and documentation projects across the Quilt Index, introducing them to a wider audience. The permission issues have since been resolved and in 2024, AQSG completed adding all the Uncoverings volumes from 1980-2023 to the Digital Commons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They are completely searchable and include all the illustrations. You can find, Uncoverings 2009, Volume 30, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/31/.

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