|
Showing 1 - 6 of
6 matches in All Departments
Today's highly industrialized and technologically controlled global
food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes
towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At
the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively
impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us,
human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of
increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and
exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global
commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost,
increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers
and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the
excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often
unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the
growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to
topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies
through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms
toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.
|
Representing Rural Women (Paperback)
Whitney Womack Smith, Margaret Thomas-Evans; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
|
R1,415
Discovery Miles 14 150
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
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.
Today's highly industrialized and technologically controlled global
food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes
towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At
the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively
impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us,
human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of
increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and
exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global
commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost,
increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers
and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the
excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often
unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the
growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to
topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies
through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms
toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.
Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts
about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially.
The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that
women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical
connection of women and the natural world in diverse ways. For
centuries women have been associated with nature but many feminists
have sought to distance themselves from the natural world because
of dominant cultural representations which reflect women as
controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic
spaces. However, in the spirit of Rachel Carson, some writers have
begun to invoke nature for feminist purposes or have used nature as
an agent of resistance. This collection considers women's writings
about the natural world in light of recent and current feminist and
ecofeminist theory and finds a variety of approaches and
perspectives, both by the scholars and by the authors discussed,
culminating with the voices of two women, activist and scientist
Joan Maloof and Irish poet Rosemarie Rowley, who both write about
the natural world from a feminist perspective.
Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts
about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially.
The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that
women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical
connection of women and the natural world in diverse ways. For
centuries women have been associated with nature but many feminists
have sought to distance themselves from the natural world because
of dominant cultural representations which reflect women as
controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic
spaces. However, in the spirit of Rachel Carson, some writers have
begun to invoke nature for feminist purposes or have used nature as
an agent of resistance. This collection considers women's writings
about the natural world in light of recent and current feminist and
ecofeminist theory and finds a variety of approaches and
perspectives, both by the scholars and by the authors discussed,
culminating with the voices of two women, activist and scientist
Joan Maloof and Irish poet Rosemarie Rowley, who both write about
the natural world from a feminist perspective.
|
Representing Rural Women (Hardcover)
Margaret Thomas-Evans, Whitney Womack Smith; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
|
R3,488
Discovery Miles 34 880
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
Representing Rural Women seeks to highlight 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
the 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 multiple settings and address the complex
realities of rural life, create spaces for self-expression, develop
networks to communicate their experiences, and seek to challenge
misconceptions and stereotypes of rural womanhood. The chapters in
this collection consider the ways that rural geography may allow
freedoms as well as impose constraints on women's lives, and
ultimately how cultural representations of rural womanhood both
reflect and shape women's experiences.
|
|