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Representing rural women / edited by Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith.

by Thomas-Evans, Margaret, editor., Womack Smith, Whitney, editor.

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

vi, 249 pages ; 24 cm

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.

Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and social media. Examining a range of time periods and geographic spaces, the essays in this collection consider how women and girls navigate rural life, create spaces for self-expression, develop networks to communicate their experiences, and challenge misconceptions and stereotypes of rural womanhood. The collection explores the ways that rural geography both allows freedoms and imposes constraints on women's lives--back cover.

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