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Representing Rural Women (Paperback)
Whitney Womack Smith, Margaret Thomas-Evans; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
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R1,415
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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.
Unsustainable: Re-imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing,
Service-Learning, and the University, edited by Jessica Restaino
and Laurie Cella, explores short-lived university/community writing
projects in an effort to rethink the long-held "gold standard" of
long-term sustainability in community writing work. Contributors
examine their own efforts in order to provide alternate models for
understanding, assessing, and enacting university/community writing
projects that, for a range of reasons, fall outside of traditional
practice. This collection considers what has become an increasingly
unified call for praxis, where scholar-practitioners explore a
specific project that fell short of theorized "best practice"
sustainability in order to determine not only the nature of what
remains-how and why we might find value in a community-based
writing project that lacks long-term sustainability, for
example-but also how or why we might rethink, redefine, and
reevaluate best practice ideals in the first place. In so doing,
the contributors are at once responding to what has been an
increasing acknowledgment in the field that, for a variety of
reasons, many community-based writing projects do not go as
initially planned, and also applying-in praxis-a framework for
thinking about and studying such projects. Unsustainable represents
the kind of scholarly work that some of the most recognizable names
in the field have been calling for over the past five years. This
book affirms that unpredictability is an indispensable factor in
the field, and argues that such unpredictability presents-in fact,
demands-a theoretical approach that takes these practical
experiences as its base.
As working women invaded the public space of the factory in the
nineteenth century, they challenged Victorian notions of female
domesticity and chastity. With virtue at the forefront of
discussions regarding working women, aspects of working-class
women’s culture—fashion, fiction, and dance halls—become
vivid signifiers for moral impropriety, and attempts to censure
these activities become overt attempts to censure female sexuality
in the workplace. The Personal and the Political in American
Working-Class Literature, 1850–1939 argues that these informal
and often ignored “trifles” of female community provided the
building blocks for female solidarity in the workplace. While most
critical approaches to working-class fiction emphasize female
suffering rather than agency, this book argues that working women
themselves viewed aspects of consumer culture and new avenues for
courtship as extensions of their rights as breadwinners. The strike
itself is an intense moment of political upheaval that lends itself
to more extensive personal and sexual freedoms. Through its
analysis of strike novels, this book provides a fuller picture of
working-class women as they simultaneously navigate new identities
as “working ladies” and enter the dramatic and sometimes
violent world of labor activism. This book is recommended for
scholars of literary studies, women’s studies, and US history.
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Representing Rural Women (Hardcover)
Margaret Thomas-Evans, Whitney Womack Smith; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
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R3,488
Discovery Miles 34 880
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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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.
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