Gender, Class and Rurality: Australian Case Studies

Autor/inn/en	Bryant, Lia; Pini, Barbara
Titel	Gender, Class and Rurality: Australian Case Studies
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 25 (2009) 1, S.48-57 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2008.05.003
Schlagwörter	Feminism; Moral Values; Foreign Countries; Case Studies; Gender Issues; Social Class; Rural Areas; Rural Population; Interviews; Rural Environment; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Feminismus; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Geschlechterfrage; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Landbevölkerung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ländliches Milieu; Australien
Abstract	The interrelationship between gender and class in rural spaces has received little attention. While rural scholars have focused on the implications for class from processes of gentrification and agricultural and rural restructuring, these analyses have remained largely ungendered. Similarly, feminist rural studies have rarely explored subjectivity as gendered and classed. This paper contributes to rural theories of class and gender by drawing on the work of contemporary feminist class theorists to explore class as gendered and inscribed through personal memory, community narrative and through everyday values and interactions associated with work, leisure and family. To explore intersections of gender, class and rurality, the article draws on data from interviews from two separate Australian studies of farming families. Narratives highlighted the ambiguity of class, the gendered and classed nature of voluntary organisations in rural spaces, and moral values and signifiers associated with what it is to be a "good" farmer and a "good" community member. The data indicate how values of moral worth are gendered and classed and inscribed on farming women and men. This qualitative examination of gender and class in rural spaces draws attention to class as being more than a ranking on an occupational scale, property ownership or degrees of engagement in consumption. Rather, it reveals class as emotionally inscribed in ways that are gendered, economic and moral, and represented through symbolic signifiers and cultural narratives. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10