This volume looks at the construction of gendered citizenship in different rural contexts. These contexts represent different welfare state and gender regimes, and different rural/agricultural conditions as characterized in different countryside types. This is a study of gender, citizenship and gender regimes, in a rural context with an international list of contributors.
Rural gender regimes: the development of rural gender research and design of a comparative approach.Agrarian femininity in a state of flux: multiple roles of Finnish farm women.Care work in Hungarian agrarian entrepreneur families during the post-socialist transition.Rural identities in transition: male unemployment and everyday practice in Northern Sweden.Women working off the farm: a case of economic citizenship?.Tracking empowerment and participation of young women farmers in Greece.Parliamentary discourses: gender and agriculture in the Swedish debate in the 1940s and 1960s.Gendered interest and motivation of the younger generation in agriculture and farm succession.Succession patterns in Norwegian farm generations: gendered responses to modernity.From formal to female property rights: gender and inheritance of landed property in Estuna, Sweden, 1810–1845.Barriers to women's participation in rural policy making.The rural gender regime: the Austrian case.Men, masculinities and the (re)gendering of local government in rural Australia.Shifting images of the ‘community’: community-based politics and women's citizenship in India and Sweden.Dynamics of change and reconstitution in hegemonic and rural gender regimes.List of Contributors.Editorial Advisory Board.About the Authors.Foreword.