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The Gendering of Hope: Rural and Farming Women’s Biographies of Hope, Care and Resistance book cover

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The Gendering of Hope Rural and Farming Women’s Biographies of Hope, Care and Resistance

By Lia Bryant Copyright 2026
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge
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The Gendering of Hope reveals how hope and gender are relational and mediated in power in Australian rural and farming women’s lives. Through conversational interviews and memory work, Lia Bryant explores key moments of hope across the life trajectories of a group of intersectionally diverse women. This rich narrative illuminates how hope emerges as an affective, sensory and embodied force in... Read more

1. Hope, Rurality and Gender

2. The Processes and Practices of Unravelling Hope

3. Joanna

4. Alice

5. Geraldine

6. Frances

7. Charanpreet

8. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women and Productivist Farming

9. Relations of Hope, Care, and Resistance

Biography

Lia Bryant is Professor of Sociology at Adelaide University who specialises in the fields of gender and rurality, codesign and creative methods. She has over 100 publications and has co-authored Gender and Rurality (2011) and Water and Rural Communities: Local Meanings, Politics and Place (2016). Bryant has also edited and co-edited the following collections: Sexuality, Rurality and Geography (2012), Critical and Creative Research Methodologies in Social Work (2015), Walking on the Grass, Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses (2015) and Social Work in a Glocalised World (2017).

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