Conferences
Reflections on the RWSA’s 14th Triennial Conference During COVID
The RWSA decided to go virtual, and the great pivot began.
Food Studies
From COVID to Comfort: New Book Explores the Role of Women and the Kitchen in Rural Life
Whether you are a foodie or a gender or food studies researcher, you will find much to savor in this unique volume.
Food Studies
Backstories, RWSA’s academic cookbook
Backstories: The Kitchen Table Cookbook is the perfect amalgamation of scholarly articles juxtaposed with heartwarming family memories associated with particular foods, and yes, plenty of recipes.
Food Studies
Countdown to Cookbook Launch
By embracing elements of history, rural studies, and women’s studies, this volume offers a unique perspective by relating food history with social dynamics. It is sure to inspire eclectic dining and conversations. #rwsa #rwsa2021 #foodstudies #ruralwomen #aghistory
Conferences
RWSA 2021 Virtual Conference Program
The theme, “Kitchen Table Talk to Global Forum,” emphasizes how conversations, relationships, and food shape rural communities. This theme allows for the consideration of the ways that gendered, sexual, ethnic, and racial identities affect personal power, class consciousness, individual choice, and community development. These subjects lend themselves to the exploration of rural activism, social justice, innovation, politics, business development, cultural expression, self-governance, and collective experiences — both historical and contemporary — locally and globally.
Conferences
RWSA 2021 Virtual Conference
The Rural Women’s Studies Association’s triennial conference has gone virtual. Register today!
research
Family farming from a rural women’s perspective
University of Lethbridge graduate student Diane McKenzie is combining her rural roots and her research interests with the intention to make an important contribution to the future of agriculture.
Economics
The Invisible Farmers
The Chief Justice of India’s recent remarks suggesting women have no place in the ongoing farmers’ protests may have gone unnoticed in the 1960s. Today they appear astonishing in their lack of awareness about what the face of the Indian farmer looks like.
feminism
OK, I’ll Do it Myself
For the past half century, Caroline Schimmel has collected narratives of women overcoming obstacles in the wilderness.