Monthly Archives: March 2017

Cowgirls and the Discourses of Patriarchy and Feminism in Country/Western Music

Connecting the cultural significance of cowgirls with an analysis of country music history. Continue reading

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Gender, Rurality and Imaginary for National and Commercial Purposes

My interest for the portrayal of rural life and culture has been awakened by researching the late 19 C worries about the extinction of long lived national cultures in many European countries. Continue reading

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Pioneer Mother Monuments and the All-American Family

In the months leading up to the “Big Berks” conference, we will be highlighting research on rural women that will be presented at that conference. This week, we share an abstract from a session focused on rural women, “The Rural Imaginary in Popular Culture.” Continue reading

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