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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Edited by Whitney Womack Smith and Margaret Thomas-Evans - Contributions by Agatha Beins; Laurie J. C. Cella; Jim Coby; Nancy Cook; H. Louise Davis; Amy Easton-Flake; Julie R. Enszer; Eli Erlick; Holly M. Kent; Wendy Keys; Adam Nemmers; Barbara Pini; Jimm
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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
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
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