Feminisms and ruralities / edited by Barbara Pini, Berit Brandth, and Jo Little.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pini, Barbara, editor.

Brandth, Berit, 1947- editor.

Little, Jo, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Rural women--Social conditions.

Rural women.

Sociology, Rural.

Physical Description:

vi, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

Summary:

Feminisms and Ruralities examines the unstable, shifting, and complex nature of rurality and feminism and their intersection. This multifaceted study is focused through two lenses, the feminist movement and rural women and feminist perspectives of rurality. The first section explores feminism in the lives of rural women from different historical, geographical, and socio-cultural environments. The second section investigates how feminist perspectives can and have enriched studies of the rural. Feminisms and Ruralities emphasizes how rural feminist scholars have greatly supplemented rural social science, drawing on a range of perspectives and traditions, it provides detailed examinations into current debates in both rural studies and feminist studies, identifying possibilities for taking a rural view of feminisms and a feminist view of ruralities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Putting the community first: feminism and rural American women's activism in the twentieth century / Sara Egge and Jenny Barker Devine

A rural woman's impact on Canadian feminist practice and theory / Susan Machum

Feminism in rural Finland: a comparison of agendas of two women's organizations / Maarit Sireni

Paradoxes of a women's organization in the forestry industry / Berit Brandth, Gro Follo, and Marit S. Haugen

Gender mainstreaming or strategic essentialism?: how to achieve rural gender equality / Sally Shortall

Feminist connections in and beyond the rural / Belinda Leach

The feminist and the cowboy: reading "An unlikely love story" / Barbara Pini and Imelda Whelehan

The development of feminist perspectives in rural gender studies / Jo Little

Finding "room to maneuver": gender, agency, and the family farm / Anne Byrne, Nata Duvvury, Áine Macken-Walsh, and Tanya Watson

The gendered ma(i)ze of globalization / Jennifer Rogers-Brown

Reflections on a feminist care approach to rural fisheries / Nicole Gerarda Power

Rural queer theory / Julie C. Keller

Girls' studies in the rural / Kate Cairns

Memory work and reflexive gendered bodies: examining rural landscapes in the making / Lia Bryant and Mona Livholts

Conclusion / Barbara Pini, Jo Little, and Berit Brandth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739188217

0739188216

OCLC:

891001540