Representing Rural Women (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Thomas-Evans, Margaret; Smith, Whitney Womack

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498595537
• Artikelnr.: 56955148

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Representing Rural Women
Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith
Part I: Representations of Rural Women in Literature and Film
Chapter 1. "Gone Country": Literary Depictions of the New Woman in Rurality
Adam Nemmers
Chapter 2. Reassessing the American Migration Experience: The Dollmaker's
Gertie Nevels as an American Working-Class Heroine
Laurie Cella
Chapter 3. A Quiet, Debilitating Ailment: Racial Isolation and Rural
America in Willa Cather's and Zora Neale Hurston's Experimental Fiction
Jericho Williams
Chapter 4. Ginseng-Gathering Women: The Underground Economy in Five
Appalachian Novels
Jimmy Dean Smith
Chapter 5. The Potential to Reform Rural Fingerbone: Sylvie's New Western
Revolution in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
Amanda Zastrow
Chapter 6. Rural Spaces and (In)Disposable Bodies in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage
the Bones
Jim Coby
Chapter 7. Codes of Kinship: Rural Poverty and Female Resilience in
Winter's Bone
H. Louise Davis and Whitney Womack Smith
Chapter 8. Rural Trans Girlhoods in Young Adult Fiction
Barbara Pini and Wendy Keys
Part II: Rural Women's Self-Representations
Chapter 9. Poetic Representations of Mormon Women in Late
Nineteenth-Century Frontier America
Amy Easton-Flake
Chapter 10. Lightning Strikes, Burned Bread & Chipmunks: Women Lookouts in
the American West
Nancy Cook
Chapter 11. A Life in the Country: Lesbians and Feminists Living on the
Land
Agatha Beins and Julie Enszer
Chapter 12. On Rural Transgender Visibility
Eli Erlick
Chapter 13. Visual and Digital Representations of Canadian Rural Women's
Organizations
Margaret Thomas-Evans
Chapter 14. "Pining for High Fashion?": Rural Women Writing on Fashion
Online
Holly Kent
Chapter 15. Fantasies and Phobias: De-Mythologizing Contemporary and
Historical Depictions of Rural Women
Elizabeth Thompson
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors