Mapping Gendered Ruralities

Forsberg Gunnel () and Stenbacka Susanne ()
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Forsberg Gunnel: Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm
Stenbacka Susanne: Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University. 751 05 Uppsala

European Countryside, 2013, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: The conventional picture of gender relations in rural places is that of a traditional, masculine social fabric. In this article, we challenge this understanding of the rural. Using three methodological approaches (quantitative, discursive and narrative), we test the hypothesis that there is an ongoing femininization of the rural, which is concealed by society’s focus on the masculine rural. We conclude that each method can give important, but not necessarily sufficient, information to answer such a process-orientated question. This methodological triangulation demonstrates the complexity of gendered rural spaces. The quantitative (map-based) analysis shows a gendered geography, the media analysis unpacks how gender is spatialized and the interviews show how space is gendered.

Keywords: rural geography; gender; masculinities; femininities; triangulation; rural geografi; genus; maskuliniteter; femininiteter; triangulering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.2478/euco-2013-0001

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