| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 243 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Jo Little -- pt. I The Feminist Movement and Rural Women -- 2. Putting the Community First: Feminism and Rural American Women's Activism in the Twentieth Century / Jenny Barker Devine -- 3. A Rural Woman's Impact on Canadian Feminist Practice and Theory / Susan Machum -- 4. Feminism in Rural Finland: A Comparison of Agendas of Two Women's Organizations / Maarit Sireni -- 5. Paradoxes of a Women's Organization in the Forestry Industry / Marit S. Haugen -- 6. Gender Mainstreaming or Strategic Essentialism?: How to Achieve Rural Gender Equality / Sally Shortall -- 7. Feminist Connections in and beyond the Rural / Belinda Leach -- 8. The Feminist and the Cowboy: Reading "An Unlikely Love Story" / Imelda Whelehan -- pt. II Feminist Perspectives of Rurality -- 9. The Development of Feminist Perspectives in Rural Gender Studies / Jo Little -- 10. Finding "Room to Maneuver": Gender, Agency, and the Family Farm / Tanya Watson |
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11. The Gendered Ma(i)ze of Globalization / Jennifer Rogers-Brown -- 12. Reflections on a Feminist Care Approach to Rural Fisheries / Nicole Gerarda Power -- 13. Rural Queer Theory / Julie C. Keller -- 14. Girls' Studies in the Rural / Kate Cairns -- 15. Memory Work and Reflexive Gendered Bodies: Examining Rural Landscapes in the Making / Mona Livholts -- 16. Conclusion / Berit Brandth |
| Summary |
This book aims to question, recalibrate and expand the field of rural social science by attending to the current debates in rural studies and feminist studies and by identifying possibilities for taking a rural view of feminisms and a feminist view of ruralities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Rural women -- Social conditions.
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Sociology, Rural.
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feminism.
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rural sociology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Feminism
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Rural women -- Social conditions
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Sociology, Rural
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pini, Barbara
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Brandth, Berit, 1947-
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Little, Jo, 1958-
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| LC no. |
2021675951 |
| ISBN |
9780739188224 |
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0739188224 |
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1498508855 |
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9781498508858 |
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