A new heartland : women, modernity, and the agrarian ideal in America / Janet Galligani Casey.
"This book reconceptualizes American modernity by focusing on rurality and women. It challenges the notion of the city as the privileged site of modern experience, arguing that rurality--urbanity's opposite, frequently associated with nostalgia and feminine sentimentality--was a fruitful g...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: women, modernity, rurality
- Critical cartographies: plotting farm women on the cultural map
- The farmer's wife and The farmer's wife
- Women, the farm, and the best-seller
- Radical ruralities
- Rural camera work: women and/in photography
- Epilogue: on heartlands and borderlands.