ISBN:
9781498595537
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.420973
Keywords:
Rural women-United States
;
Women in literature
Abstract:
Representing Rural Women 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.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Representations of Rural Women in Literature and Film -- 1 "Gone Country" -- 2 Reassessing the American Migration Experience -- 3 A Quiet, Debilitating Ailment -- 4 Ginseng-Gathering Women -- 5 The Potential to Reform Rural Fingerbone -- 6 Rural Spaces and (In)Disposable Bodies in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones -- 7 Codes of Kinship -- 8 Rural Trans Girlhoods in Young Adult Fiction -- Part II: Rural Women's Self-Representations -- 9 Poetic Representations of Mormon Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Frontier America -- 10 Lightning Strikes, Burned Bread, and Chipmunks -- 11 A Life in the Country -- 12 On Rural Transgender Visibility -- 13 Visual and Digital Representations of Canadian Rural Women's Organizations -- 14 "Pining for High Fashion?" -- 15 Fantasies and Phobias -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.
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