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Critical studies in rural gender issues
- Title
- Critical studies in rural gender issues / edited by Jo Little and Carol Morris.
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.
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- Description
- viii, 164 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This edited volume brings together leading academics from across the social sciences to examine new perspectives on the study of gender and rurality. It combines theoretical debates with a wide range of original empirical research. The book introduces new material on gender identity and the performance of masculinity and femininity in rural areas, contributing to the development of existing theory in this area and providing new insights into the understanding of gender relations in rural areas."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Perspectives on rural policy and planning
- Uniform Title
- Perspectives on rural policy and planning
- Subject
- Rural women > Great Britain
- Sex role > Great Britain
- Rural conditions
- Rural women
- Sex role
- Agrarsoziologie
- Geschlechterverhältnis
- Landbevölkerung
- Geschlechterrolle
- Landleben
- Gleichberechtigung
- Sekseverschillen
- Rurale geografie
- rural women
- women workers
- men
- sexual division of labour
- rural development
- rural area
- one parent family
- peasant farmer
- quality of life
- equal rights
- rural youth
- social problem
- femmes rurales
- travailleuses
- hommes
- division du travail basée sur le sexe
- développement rural
- zone rurale
- famille monoparentale
- paysan
- qualité de la vie
- droits égaux
- jeunesse rurale
- problème social
- mujeres rurales
- trabajadoras
- hombres
- división del trabajo por sexo
- desarrollo rural
- zona rural
- hogar con un solo progenitor
- campesino
- calidad de la vida
- igualdad de derechos
- juventud rural
- problema social
- Gender roles
- Great Britain > Rural conditions
- Great Britain
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
- Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Jo Little and Carol Morris -- Rural work: an overview of women's experiences / Carol Morris and Jo Little -- Lone parents and paid work: evidence from rural England / Annie Hughes and Corinne Nativel -- Work and worry: revealing farm women's way of life / Linda Price and Nick Evans -- The identification of farmer's wives: research challenges in the Northern Fells, Cumbria / Katy Bennett -- Recasting the pattern: critical relations in gender and rurality / Deborah Thein -- Political climate and gender relations: farm women, property rights and equality in Northern Ireland / Sally Shortall -- "No place for a girl": rural youth, pubs and the preformance of masculinity / Michael Leyshon -- "We used to scrump the apples, we used to have our knickers full of 'em" growing up in the countryside: forging femininities in rural Somerset c: 1950-1970 / Kelly Elswood-Hollard -- Rural women and fear of crime / Jo Little, Ruth Panelli, and Anna Kraack.
- ISBN
- 0754635171
- 9780754635178
- LCCN
- 2004062695
- OCLC
- ocm56903766
- 56903766
- SCSB-1379155
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library