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

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Lia Bryant (Adelaide University, Australia)

The Gendering of Hope

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

Lia Bryant (Adelaide University, Australia)

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Routledge
29 October 2025

Research methods: general; Cultural studies; Gender studies: women; Social & cultural anthropology; Human geography

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

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 women’s human and more-than-human worlds. Work and family come into view, as do farmer suicide, family violence, climate crises, entanglements with soil and the depth and shape of loneliness. For rural and farming women, ‘hope as gendered’ manifests through practices of care, acts of imagination and forms of resistance.

A valuable resource for those interested in biographical life history research and qualitative research methods, this book draws out new dimensions of hope, gender and rurality. It is an essential reading for scholars and students interested in biographical research, sociology, sociology of hope, feminist studies, rural studies, social and cultural geography, cultural studies and social anthropology.

By: Lia Bryant (Adelaide University Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781041022619
ISBN 10: 1041022611
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Pages: 122
Publication Date: 29 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).