Women and the rural idyll

Little, Jo; Austin, Patricia

doi:10.1016/0743-0167(96)00004-6

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“…Research by Little and Austin (1996) shows that mothers consider the countryside to be a safer place than the city to bring up their children. Sian also moved from the city to the countryside to provide her two children with what she referred to as "a rural lifestyle".…”

Section: Lifestyle and School Choicementioning

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Parental choice and the rural primary school: Lifestyle, locality and loyalty

Walker

Clark

2010

Journal of Rural Studies

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This paper discusses the geography of parental choice in a rural locale and shows how a group of parents negotiated their way through the process of primary school choice.Using ethnographic data collected through interviews and observations with parents and staff from three rural primary schools in England, the research utilises Bourdieu"s concepts of capital, habitus and field to show how the resources and values the parents held affected the school choices they made. The paper demonstrates that the longerterm resident local parents were influenced not only by their cultural capital but also by familial ties and an emotional commitment to the rural locale and these parents were therefore more inclined to support their local school. In contrast, the more recent newcomer parents used their cultural capital and spatial power to shop around to find what they believed to be the "right" school. The paper argues that the newcomer parents had less allegiance to place and hence to the symbolic position that the school holds within the rural community within which they lived.

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Section: Lifestyle and School Choicementioning

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Parental choice and the rural primary school: Lifestyle, locality and loyalty

Walker

Clark

2010

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…In this framework, it is surprising that there are so few studies that refer to the influence of different social groups that reside in rural areas (Little, Austin, 1996). Initially, the concept of the rural idyl was used to explain the general attraction of urban populations to rural areas for environmental and leisure reasons (Hoggart, Buller, Black, 1995).…”

Section: Coounterurbanization New Social Groups and The Social Constmentioning

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“…In any case, recent studies have revealed a dearth of research in this area of social change in rural areas, relative to other aspects of rural restructurisation processes (Little, Austin, 1996). Furthermore, comparative studies about the different fractions of new social groups in one area are almost non-existent.…”

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The Environment in the Process of Differentiation of New Social Fractions in Depopulated Areas of Spain: Key environmental considerations in the way from big cities to extreme rural areas

Paniagua¹

2008

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Abstract:The environmental factors present a strong relevance in the analysis of the rural areas in the western european countries and United States of America. An aspect with few studies in this research sfere is the relevance of the environmental dimension in the social change in rural areas and in the constitution of new social fractions.The present contribution study, in comparative and conceptual perspective, the environmental considerations in the constitution of new social fractions, associated with counterurbanization process.

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“…Normative representations of rural femininities tie feminine gender roles and identities to the domestic sphere, separating women from the socially valued tasks of working on and managing the land (Little and Austin, 1996;Shortall, 2006). Unlike women who live and/or work on farms, women who work with horses (either as a job, or looking after their own horse) outnumber men and thus women's physical labour in the horse industry is visible (Hedenborg and Hedenborg White, 2013).…”

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Strong, active women: (Re)doing rural femininity through equestrian sport and leisure

Dashper

2016

Ethnography

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Horse-riding is a popular leisure activity within rural Britain. Straddling two masculinised social contexts -rural, land-based society and sport/physical recreation -horse-riding is a feminised, yet mixed-sex, milieu. This article presents data from an ethnography of the social world of horse-riding to consider how women within this context do and redo gender in ways that may begin to challenge ideas about what women are and are capable of, within rural and sporting contexts.Equestrianism is revealing about elements of rural life, particularly the role of women and women's leisure. Women's active leisure in the countryside has been rendered largely invisible for decades, yet women's sport/physical recreation forms an important part of rural leisure worlds. This study of women and horse-riding offers examples of how feminine identities help shape the rural leisure landscape in ways that begin to redefine gender relations and gender identities within the British countryside in small, yet potentially significant, ways.

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Women and the rural idyll

Cited by 263 publications

References 10 publications

Parental choice and the rural primary school: Lifestyle, locality and loyalty

Parental choice and the rural primary school: Lifestyle, locality and loyalty

The Environment in the Process of Differentiation of New Social Fractions in Depopulated Areas of Spain: Key environmental considerations in the way from big cities to extreme rural areas

Strong, active women: (Re)doing rural femininity through equestrian sport and leisure

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