“She's not really a woman, she's half a man”: Gendered discourses of embodiment in a French farming community

Saugères, Lise

doi:10.1016/s0277-5395(02)00342-4

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“…Saugeres (2002c) first identifies the way in which a number of the farming men in her study describe themselves as paysan, which is suggestive of a traditional farmer working closely with the land. Their definition of the good farmer is a natural farmer.…”

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“…The land is feminised by the farming men -depicted as nurturing mother or sexualised as potentially threatening and destructive. Saugeres (2002c) emphasises that not all the farming men she interviewed had the same imagined relationship with the land. However, even in those cases where male farmers did not claim they had a natural affiliation with the land they still identified themselves as legitimate farmers in their own right.…”

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Retracted: Masculinities in the Rural and the Agricultural: A Literature Review

Coldwell

2009

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article provides a summary of social science studies at the nexus of masculinity and the rural, particularly the agricultural. These studies began to emerge in the rural social science literature in 1995, when Berit Brandth pioneered the study of masculinities and farming practices in Norway. The studies reviewed here are particularly important as they begin to focus on men and masculinities in the rural and the agricultural, categories that previously had been the assumed, yet invisible subject of rural studies. The studies also link masculinity to farming practices in a number of ways that clearly have implications for the future of farming in terms of ecological crises across social, economic and environmental rural landscapes. The aim of this article is twofold; to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between masculine identities and farming practices and to identify possible theoretical pathways for future research that might assist us to identify and develop more sustainable ways of farming and rural life. S tudies have shown agriculture in Australia and other western nations to be a masculine domain of social practice where men see themselves as the farmers and the name 'farmer' is analogous to the identities and practices of men. In the context of current social, economic and environmental concerns that are perceived to threaten the sustainability of agriculture and many of its rural communities, it therefore seems likely that much of what has taken place historically in the practices of agriculture has a lot to do with men and therefore with masculinity. It follows that the future sustainability of agriculture will also have a lot to do with men and therefore with masculinity. Here, a review of the literature is used as a starting point in attempting to understand current knowledge about the relationships between masculinity and the rural, particularly the agricultural. Such an understanding is able to inform further necessary work in documenting the emerging story of agriculture and its farmers in the context of sustainability.Most current knowledge about masculinity in the rural and the agricultural emerged in discourse analysis from studies organised around the concept of gender as social practice within a framework informed by hegemonic masculinity theory (Campbell et al. 2006). The concept and theory have been used widely in

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Retracted: Masculinities in the Rural and the Agricultural: A Literature Review

Coldwell

2009

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…According to Saugeres (2002c) women are never seen as having bodies that enable them to farm in the same terms as men, but rather as lacking the masculine attributes that are defined as central to farming. The ''inferiorized otherness of the female body'' defines their work on the farm as easier and as having less value than men's work (Saugeres, 2002c, p. 646).…”

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“…Recently, also the body has started to come to some attention in this field of study (Brandth and Haugen, 2005a;Bryant, 1999;Little and Leyshon, 2003;Saugeres, 2002c), and it is expected to contribute an additional and critical dimension to the understanding of the relationship between gender and rurality (Little and Leyshon, 2003).…”

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Agricultural body-building: Incorporations of gender, body and work

Brandth

2006

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…For instance, the status of rural women in agricultural activities and socio-economic structure have been examined in Nigeria, Jamaica, Malaysia, India, Australia, Slovenia, Hungary, South France and Greece with all dimensions (Adekanye, 1984;Protz, 1998;Edris, 1999;Bhuvaneswari and Kannan, 1999;Rickson and Daniels, 1999;Mesl, 1998;Repassy, 1991;Saugeres, 2002;Gidarakou, 1999).…”

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Rural women and agrotourism in the context of sustainable rural development: A case study from Turkey

Akpinar

Talay

Ceylan

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Environ Dev Sustain

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As in many developing countries also in Turkey, agriculture is on the center of rural development and rural women are on the center of agriculture. Although they are main part as a major labor force at every stage of agricultural activity and undertake responsibilities such as domestic task and childcare, women do not profit from social and economic benefits proportionate to the responsibilities they have undertaken.Agrotourism is an alternative activity in the rural development process, which combines agriculture and tourism, improves natural resources, contributes the rural area socially and economically.The aim of this study is to examine the participation conditions of rural women to the agrotourism activities, which is considered as an option in the context of sustainable rural development, and to identify the possible social and economic implications of agrotourism on the rural women's life, after determining the situation and importance of rural women in the agricultural activity. This research was carried out in three villages of Kalecik district of Ankara and data gathered from group meetings and surveys.

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“She's not really a woman, she's half a man”: Gendered discourses of embodiment in a French farming community

Cited by 42 publications

References 28 publications

Retracted: Masculinities in the Rural and the Agricultural: A Literature Review

Retracted: Masculinities in the Rural and the Agricultural: A Literature Review

Agricultural body-building: Incorporations of gender, body and work

Rural women and agrotourism in the context of sustainable rural development: A case study from Turkey

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