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Representing rural women /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Thomas-Evans, Margaret, 1961- (Editor), Womack Smith, Whitney (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Subjects:
Rural women > United States.
Women in literature.
Women in popular culture > United States.
Rural women > Canada.
Women in popular culture > Canada.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: representing rural women / Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith
  • Representations of rural women in literature and film
  • "Gone country" : literary depictions of the new woman in rurality / Adam Nemmers
  • Reassessing the American migration experience : the dollmaker's Gertie nevels as an American working-class heroine / Laurie Cella
  • A quiet, debilitating ailment : racial isolation and rural America in Willa Cather and Zora Neale Hurston's experimental fiction / Jericho Williams
  • Ginseng-gathering women : the underground economy in five appalachian novels / Jimmy Dean Smith
  • The potential to reform rural fingerbone : Sylvie's new western revolution in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping / Amanda Zastrow
  • Rural spaces and (in)disposable bodies in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Jim Coby
  • Codes of kinship : rural poverty and female resilience in Winter's Bone / H. Louise Davis and Whitney Womack Smith
  • Rural trans girlhoods in young adult fiction / Barbara Pini and Wendy Keys
  • Rural women's self-representations
  • Poetic representations of Mormon women in late nineteenth-century frontier America / Amy Easton-Flake
  • Lightning strikes, burned bread & chipmunks : women lookouts in the American West / Nancy Cook
  • A life in the country : lesbians and feminists living on the land / Agatha Beins and Julie Enszer
  • On rural transgender visibility / Eli Erlick
  • Visual and digital representations of Canadian rural women's organizations / Margaret Thomas-Evans
  • "Pining for high fashion" : rural women writing on fashion online / Holly Kent
  • Fantasies and phobias : de-mythologizing contemporary and historical depictions of rural women / Elizabeth Thompson
  • Index
  • About the editors
  • About the contributors.