New Books
New Book: Representing Rural Women
There is no one rural woman’s story, but a multiplicity of stories.
Food Studies
The Olive Garden Lady and Rural Middle American Culture
Why did Marilyn Hagerty “go viral” after more than fifty years writing for the same small newspaper?
Conferences
Wide Open Suburban Spaces
Querying the boundaries of natural, rural, urban, and suburban spaces, and the complex interrelationships between traveling and living in the twentieth-century American West.
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Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder
To celebrate the 150th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder in 2017, the Pioneer Girl Project of the South Dakota State Historical Society has released a new book on the writer’s legacy.
Sources in Rural Women's History
“Dear Miss Cushman”: The Dreams of Eva McCoy, 1874
But was Eva McCoy exactly as she appeared? Was her careful appeal actually a careful manipulation of sympathy or did it conceal an even sadder truth?
Conferences
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.
Conferences
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.
Conferences
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.”
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Story About a Man Named Jed: Gender Constructions in The Beverly Hillbillies
This story was about so much more than a poor mountaineer turned millionaire
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Ma Kettle Revisited
Ma Kettle is no longer the face of rural women, but her entertainment genetic legacy endures.