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.
The Langham Place group thus challenged dominant conceptualisations of respectable femininity for rural womenthroughout the second half of the nineteenth-century
The Rural Women’s Studies Association and this Rural Women’s Studies blog seek to highlight both research and activism related to rural women around the world. This week, instead of our typical blog post, we have chosen to highlight an upcoming campaign that seeks to promote local activism around the globe to Read more
More attention needs to be paid to how women in the countryside thought and acted when it came to political parties, candidates, elections, citizenship, and the issues of the day
A group of young women studying agriculture in Norway recently wrote a song supporting small family farms. Their music video, “Norway Needs a Farmer” has gone viral. In today’s “RWSA Wednesday” post, read about the video and the historical and political context for this hit song.