Representing Rural Women - Softcover

Sotiriou, Stylianos

 
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Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

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.

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ISBN 10:  1498595529 ISBN 13:  9781498595520
Publisher: Lexington Books, 2019
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