American Culture
American West
Appalachia
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LGBTQ Youth
Migration
Mormons
New Woman
Popular Culture
Representation
Rural Studies
Rural Women
Rurality
United States of America
Women's and Gender Studies
Working Class
Young Adult Fiction
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- ISBN 9781498595544
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 154 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Representing Rural Women 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.
Margaret Thomas-Evans is associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Indiana University East.
Whitney Womack Smith is professor of English and chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Writing at Miami University Regionals, Ohio.
