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Synopsis
This book examines the 'other' side of the countryside, a place also inhabited (and visited) by women, children, teenagers, the elderly, gay men and lesbians, black and ethnic minorities, the unemployed and the poor. These groups have remained largely excluded by both rural policies and the representations of rural culture.
The book charts the experiences of these marginalised groups and sets this exploration within the context of postmodern, poststructuralist, postcolonial and late feminist analysis. This theoretical framework reveals how notions of the rural have been created to reflect and reinforce divisions amongst those living in the countryside.
Booknews
Examines the side of rural society which is inhabited by those marginalized by age, class, gender, race, and disability, and questions the processes whereby the cultural constructions of rurality render the definition of "other." Part one maps out different topographies of rurality and otherness. Part two discusses current research findings on the otherness and marginality associated with particular aspects of age, gender, sexuality, economic position, and alternativeness. The 15 essays, most of which are written by members of university departments of geography, include topics such as a postmodern perspective on counterurbanization, rural horror, lesbian separatist communities, country childhood stories, and domestic identities and moral order. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.