Format:
vi, 249 Seiten
ISBN:
9781498595520
,
9781498595544
Content:
Introduction: representing rural women / Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith -- Representations of rural women in literature and film -- "Gone country" : literary depictions of the new woman in rurality / Adam Nemmers -- Reassessing the American migration experience : the dollmaker's Gertie nevels as an American working-class heroine / Laurie Cella -- A quiet, debilitating ailment : racial isolation and rural America in Willa Cather and Zora Neale Hurston's experimental fiction / Jericho Williams -- Ginseng-gathering women : the underground economy in five appalachian novels / Jimmy Dean Smith -- The potential to reform rural fingerbone : Sylvie's new western revolution in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping / Amanda Zastrow -- Rural spaces and (in)disposable bodies in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Jim Coby -- Codes of kinship : rural poverty and female resilience in Winter's Bone / H. Louise Davis and Whitney Womack Smith -- Rural trans girlhoods in young adult fiction / Barbara Pini and Wendy Keys -- Rural women's self-representations -- Poetic representations of Mormon women in late nineteenth-century frontier America / Amy Easton-Flake -- Lightning strikes, burned bread & chipmunks : women lookouts in the American West / Nancy Cook -- A life in the country : lesbians and feminists living on the land / Agatha Beins and Julie Enszer -- On rural transgender visibility / Eli Erlick -- Visual and digital representations of Canadian rural women's organizations / Margaret Thomas-Evans -- "Pining for high fashion" : rural women writing on fashion online / Holly Kent -- Fantasies and phobias : de-mythologizing contemporary and historical depictions of rural women / Elizabeth Thompson -- Index -- About the editors -- About the contributors.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 97814985958537
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Kanada
;
USA
;
Frau
;
Ländlicher Raum
