Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces

Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore them in the context of contemporary social and economic transformations in which global processes that reconstitute gender and class interconnect with and take shape in a particular form of locality - the rural.

The book is innovative in that it:
- responds to calls for more critical work on the ru...