Reshaping gender and class in rural spaces / edited by Barbara Pini and Belinda Leach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pini, Barbara.

Leach, Belinda, 1954-

Series:

Gender in a global/local world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Rural.

Rural women--Social conditions.

Rural women.

Gender mainstreaming.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

xvi, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011.

Summary:

Much of the social science literature on rurality congenitally fails to even acknowledge class, suggest Pini (Curtin U. of Technology, Australia) and Leach (U. of Guelph, Canada), so by bringing class into their analysis as it intersects with gender, they are also bringing back in a central concern with social justice, as opposed to the somewhat nebulous and perhaps even misleading concern with "social inclusion" so prominent in the contemporary literature. The 12 papers they have collected discuss such topics as articulations of social class by farm women in New Brunswick, Canada; the role of gender and ethnicity in the division of agricultural labor in New South Wales, Australia; social relations and migrant women farm workers in Canada; configurations of gender, class, and rurality in Australia; gender and class in the ruralized automotive manufacturing industry in Ontario, Canada; and rural Appalachian women miners' reconstruction of gender in a class based community, to cite some representative examples. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Transformations of class and gender in the globalized countryside : an introduction / Barbara Pini and Belinda Leach

Material, cultural, moral and emotional inscriptions of class and gender : impressions from gentrified rural Britain / Martin Phillips

Articulating social class : farm women's competing visions of the family farm / Susan Machum

"Picking blueberries and Indian women go hand in hand" : the role of gender and ethnicity in the division of agricultural labour in Woolgoolga, New South Wales, Australia / Rae Dufty and Edgar Liu

Re-examining the social relations of the Canadian "family farm" : migrant women farm workers in rural Canada / Kerry Preibisch and Evelyn Encalada Grez

Configurations of gender, class and rurality in resource affected rural Australia / Barbara Pini and Robyn Mayes

Jobs for women gender and class in Ontario's ruralized automotive manufacturing industry / Belinda Leach

Digging deeper : rural Appalachian women miners' reconstruction of gender in a class based community / Suzanne E. Tallichet

Class, rurality and lone parents' connections with waged labour : the mediating influences of relational assets and human capital / Annie Hughes

Not all "bright lights, big city" classed intersections in urban and rural sexual geographies / Yvette Taylor

Terms of engagement : the intersections among gender, class and race in Canadian sustainable forest management / Maureen G. Reed and Debra Davidson

The "hidden injuries" of class and gender among rural teenagers / Edward W. Morris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409402916

1409402916

9781409402923

1409402924

OCLC:

702168610