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Representing Rural Women
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Verlag: | Lexington Books |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 27.06.2019 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781498595537 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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Beschreibungen
<span>Representing Rural Women</span>
<span> highlights 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 this 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 women’s experiences, including Mormon pioneer women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women’s organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women and girls navigate the complex realities of rural life, create spaces for self-expression, develop networks to communicate their experiences, and challenge misconceptions and stereotypes of rural womanhood. The chapters in this collection consider the ways that rural geography allows freedoms as well as imposes constraints on women’s lives, and explore how cultural representations of rural womanhood both reflect and shape women’s experiences.</span>
<span> highlights 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 this 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 women’s experiences, including Mormon pioneer women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women’s organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women and girls navigate the complex realities of rural life, create spaces for self-expression, develop networks to communicate their experiences, and challenge misconceptions and stereotypes of rural womanhood. The chapters in this collection consider the ways that rural geography allows freedoms as well as imposes constraints on women’s lives, and explore how cultural representations of rural womanhood both reflect and shape women’s experiences.</span>
<span>Representing Rural Women</span>
<span> examines representations of the lives and experiences of rural women in North American literature, popular culture, and print, visual, and digital media. It highlights the complexity and diversity of rural women by considering intersecting issues of region, class, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and gender identity.</span>
<span> examines representations of the lives and experiences of rural women in North American literature, popular culture, and print, visual, and digital media. It highlights the complexity and diversity of rural women by considering intersecting issues of region, class, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and gender identity.</span>
<span>Contents</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Introduction: Representing Rural Women</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span>Part I: Representations of Rural Women in Literature and Film</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 1. “Gone Country”: Literary Depictions of the New Woman in Rurality</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Adam Nemmers </span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 2. Reassessing the American Migration Experience: </span>
<span>The Dollmaker</span>
<span>’s Gertie Nevels as an American Working-Class Heroine</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Laurie Cella</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 3. A Quiet, Debilitating Ailment: Racial Isolation and Rural America in Willa Cather’s and Zora Neale Hurston’s Experimental Fiction</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Jericho Williams</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 4. Ginseng-Gathering Women: The Underground Economy in Five Appalachian Novels</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Jimmy Dean Smith</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 5. The Potential to Reform Rural Fingerbone: Sylvie’s New Western Revolution in Marilynne Robinson’s </span>
<span>Housekeeping</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Amanda Zastrow</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 6. Rural Spaces and (In)Disposable Bodies in Jesmyn Ward’s </span>
<span>Salvage the Bones</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Jim Coby</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 7. Codes of Kinship: Rural Poverty and Female Resilience in </span>
<span>Winter’s Bone</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>H. Louise Davis and Whitney Womack Smith</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 8. Rural Trans Girlhoods in Young Adult Fiction</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Barbara Pini and Wendy Keys</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span>Part II: Rural Women's Self-Representations</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 9. Poetic Representations of Mormon Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Frontier America</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Amy Easton-Flake</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 10. Lightning Strikes, Burned Bread & Chipmunks: Women Lookouts in the American West</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Nancy Cook</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 11. A Life in the Country: Lesbians and Feminists Living on the Land </span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Agatha Beins and Julie Enszer</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 12. On Rural Transgender Visibility</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Eli Erlick</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 13. Visual and Digital Representations of Canadian Rural Women’s Organizations</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Margaret Thomas-Evans</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 14. “Pining for High Fashion?”: Rural Women Writing on Fashion Online</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Holly Kent</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 15. Fantasies and Phobias: De-Mythologizing Contemporary and Historical Depictions of Rural Women</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Elizabeth Thompson</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span>Index</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>About the Editors</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>About the Contributors</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Introduction: Representing Rural Women</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span>Part I: Representations of Rural Women in Literature and Film</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 1. “Gone Country”: Literary Depictions of the New Woman in Rurality</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Adam Nemmers </span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 2. Reassessing the American Migration Experience: </span>
<span>The Dollmaker</span>
<span>’s Gertie Nevels as an American Working-Class Heroine</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Laurie Cella</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 3. A Quiet, Debilitating Ailment: Racial Isolation and Rural America in Willa Cather’s and Zora Neale Hurston’s Experimental Fiction</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Jericho Williams</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 4. Ginseng-Gathering Women: The Underground Economy in Five Appalachian Novels</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Jimmy Dean Smith</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 5. The Potential to Reform Rural Fingerbone: Sylvie’s New Western Revolution in Marilynne Robinson’s </span>
<span>Housekeeping</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Amanda Zastrow</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 6. Rural Spaces and (In)Disposable Bodies in Jesmyn Ward’s </span>
<span>Salvage the Bones</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Jim Coby</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 7. Codes of Kinship: Rural Poverty and Female Resilience in </span>
<span>Winter’s Bone</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>H. Louise Davis and Whitney Womack Smith</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 8. Rural Trans Girlhoods in Young Adult Fiction</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Barbara Pini and Wendy Keys</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span>Part II: Rural Women's Self-Representations</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 9. Poetic Representations of Mormon Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Frontier America</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Amy Easton-Flake</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 10. Lightning Strikes, Burned Bread & Chipmunks: Women Lookouts in the American West</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Nancy Cook</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 11. A Life in the Country: Lesbians and Feminists Living on the Land </span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Agatha Beins and Julie Enszer</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 12. On Rural Transgender Visibility</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Eli Erlick</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 13. Visual and Digital Representations of Canadian Rural Women’s Organizations</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Margaret Thomas-Evans</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 14. “Pining for High Fashion?”: Rural Women Writing on Fashion Online</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Holly Kent</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Chapter 15. Fantasies and Phobias: De-Mythologizing Contemporary and Historical Depictions of Rural Women</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>Elizabeth Thompson</span>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span>Index</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>About the Editors</span>
<br>
<br>
<span>About the Contributors</span>
<span>Margaret Thomas-Evans</span>
<span> is associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Indiana University East. <br><br></span>
<span>Whitney Womack Smith</span>
<span> is professor of English and chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Writing at Miami University Regionals, Ohio.</span>
<span> is associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Indiana University East. <br><br></span>
<span>Whitney Womack Smith</span>
<span> is professor of English and chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Writing at Miami University Regionals, Ohio.</span>