Whitney Womack Smith/Margaret Thomas-Evans: Representing Rural Women (E-Book)

<span>Representing Rural Women</span><span> 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 womens experiences, including Mormon pioneer women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural womens 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 womens lives, and explore how cultural representations of rural womanhood both reflect and shape womens experiences.</span>

Representing Rural Women examines representations of the lives and experiences of rural women in North American literature, popular culture, and print, visual, and digital media. It highlights the complexity and diversity of rural women by considering intersecting issues of region, class, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and gender identity.

Margaret Thomas-Evans is associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Indiana University East.

Whitney Womack Smith is professor of English and chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Writing at Miami University Regionals, Ohio.