ERIC Number: EJ1186662
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Mar
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0835-4944
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Situated Feminism, Rurality, and Women's Learning in Rural Manitoba, Canada
Neustaeter, Robin
Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, v27 n2 p100-119 Mar 2015
Intersectional analysis of women's experiences and learning rarely consider rurality at the crossroads of social experiences and identities. Various factors, such as assumptions about rural areas as hesitant toward feminism and the homogeneity and "gemeinschaft" ideologies of rurality, may contribute to the lack of analysis of rural identities. Rurality encompasses the imagined and experienced conditions of being rural. Starting with rural women's lived experiences, this examination of an ethnographic doctoral study explores the intersections of rurality and gender in women's learning in community involvement in southern Manitoba. Drawing from the data, attention is given to rural women's discussions of opportunities, rural lifestyles, patriarchy, and connecting pertaining to community involvement.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Rural Areas, Womens Education, Ethnography, Life Style, Self Concept, Sex Fairness, Peer Relationship, Females, Rural Population
Mount Saint Vincent University. e-mail: cjsaerceea@gmail.com; Web site: https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/index.php/cjsae
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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