The Gendering of Hope

Rural and Farming Women's Biographies of Hope, Care and Resistance
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-02261-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

The Gendering of Hope reveals how hope and gender are relational and mediated in power in Australian rural and farming women’s lives. Through conversational interviews and memory work, Bryant explores key moments of hope across the life trajectories of a group of intersectionally diverse women.

This rich narrative illuminates how hope emerges as an affective, sensory, and embodied force in women’s human and more-than-human worlds. Work and family come into view, as do farmer suicide, family violence, climate crises, entanglements with soil, and the depth and shape of loneliness. For rural and farming women hope as gendered manifests through practices of care, acts of imagination, and forms of resistance.

A valuable resource for those interested in biographical life history research and qualitative research methods, this book draws out new dimensions of hope, gender and rurality. It is an essential reading for scholars and students interested in biographical research, sociology, sociology of hope, feminist studies, rural studies, social and cultural geography, cultural studies, and social anthropology.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bryant, Lia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Hope, Rurality and Gender; 2. The Processes and Practices of Unravelling Hope; 3. Joanna; 4. Alice; 5. Geraldine; 6. Frances; 7. Charanpreet; 8. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and productivist farming; 9. Relations of Hope, Care, and Resistance

Über Autor(innen)

Lia Bryant is a Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia who specialises in the field of gender and rurality, codesign and creative methods. She has over 100 publications and has co-authored Gender and Rurality (2011), Water and Rural Communities: Local Meanings, Politics and Place (2016). Bryant has also edited and coedited the following collections Sexuality, Rurality and Geography (2012), Critical and Creative Research Methodologies in Social Work (2015), Walking on the Grass, Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses (2015) and Social Work in a Glocalised World (2107).