Representing Rural Women

Contents

Introduction: Representing Rural Women

Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith

Part I: Representations of Rural Women in Literature and Film

Chapter 1. "Gone Country": Literary Depictions of the New Woman in Rurality

Adam Nemmers

Chapter 2. Reassessing the American Migration Experience: The Dollmaker's Gertie Nevels as an American Working-Class Heroine

Laurie Cella

Chapter 3. A Quiet, Debilitating Ailment: Racial Isolation and Rural America in Willa Cather's and Zora Neale Hurston's Experimental Fiction

Jericho Williams

Chapter 4. Ginseng-Gathering Women: The Underground Economy in Five Appalachian Novels

Jimmy Dean Smith

Chapter 5. The Potential to Reform Rural Fingerbone: Sylvie's New Western Revolution in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping

Amanda Zastrow

Chapter 6. Rural Spaces and (In)Disposable Bodies in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones

Jim Coby

Chapter 7. Codes of Kinship: Rural Poverty and Female Resilience in Winter's Bone

H. Louise Davis and Whitney Womack Smith

Chapter 8. Rural Trans Girlhoods in Young Adult Fiction

Barbara Pini and Wendy Keys

Part II: Rural Women's Self-Representations

Chapter 9. Poetic Representations of Mormon Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Frontier America

Amy Easton-Flake

Chapter 10. Lightning Strikes, Burned Bread & Chipmunks: Women Lookouts in the American West

Nancy Cook

Chapter 11. A Life in the Country: Lesbians and Feminists Living on the Land

Agatha Beins and Julie Enszer

Chapter 12. On Rural Transgender Visibility

Eli Erlick

Chapter 13. Visual and Digital Representations of Canadian Rural Women's Organizations

Margaret Thomas-Evans

Chapter 14. "Pining for High Fashion?": Rural Women Writing on Fashion Online

Holly Kent

Chapter 15. Fantasies and Phobias: De-Mythologizing Contemporary and Historical Depictions of Rural Women

Elizabeth Thompson

Index

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