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Representing Rural Women

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Representing Rural Women

Contributors:

By (Author) Margaret Thomas-Evans
Edited by Whitney Womack Smith
Contributions by Agatha Beins
Contributions by Laurie J. C. Cella
Contributions by Jim Coby
Contributions by Nancy Cook
Contributions by H. Louise Davis
Contributions by Amy Easton-Flake
Contributions by Julie R. Enszer
Contributions by Eli Erlick

ISBN:

9781498595520

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Lexington Books

Publication Date:

27th June 2019

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Feminism and feminist theory
Rural communities / rural life
Gender studies: women and girls
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Dewey:

305.420973

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

256

Dimensions:

Width 162mm, Height 228mm, Spine 24mm

Weight:

553g

Description

Representing Rural Women seeks to highlight the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in the collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic spaces, and rural womens experiences, including Mormon pioneer women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural womens organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women and girls navigate multiple settings and address the complex realities of rural life, create spaces for self-expression, develop networks to communicate their experiences, and seek to challenge misconceptions and stereotypes of rural womanhood. The chapters in this collection consider the ways that rural geography may allow freedoms as well as impose constraints on womens lives, and ultimately how cultural representations of rural womanhood both reflect and shape womens experiences.

Reviews

This collection addresses how rural women, long overlooked by literary scholars, have been represented by others and themselves in various mediums from literature to social media. Anyone interested in rural women, past and present, the spaces they inhabit and symbolic imaginaries, will find it fascinating as it challenges preconceived notions about women and rurality. -- Catharine A. Wilson, Redelmeier Professor in Rural History, University of Guelph and Co-Chair of the Rural Womens Studies Association
I found this work engrossing, fascinating, and insightful. Encompassing themes of race, class, and sexuality, it shows that cultural representations of being female and rural are myriad, complex, and multi-faceted. It offers new ways for seeing and understanding rural womens experiences. The perceptive analyses here of how diverse rural female figures have alternatively found comfort, belonging, isolation, violence, and power offers a potent corrective to notions of rural worlds as monolithic, irrelevant, or pass. This is a wonderful and incredibly moving book. -- Nancy K. Berlage, Texas State University
Spanning over a century in the US and Canada, Representing Rural Women challenges our ideas of who rural women are and what they do. Through various media, representations of rural women and by rural womensuch as Hurricane Katrina survivors, lesbians in the 1970s, fashion bloggers, trans girls, those who migrated, and morecomplicate what it means to be a rural woman. Authors from a range of disciplines remind us at every turn of the multiplicity of rural experiences that counteract the way rural lives are narrowly depicted in public discourse. -- Charlotte Hogg, Texas Christian University

Author Bio

Margaret Thomas-Evans is assistant professor and chair of the Department of English at Indiana University East. Whitney Womack Smith is professor of English and chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Writing at Miami University, Ohio.

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