Contested Countryside Cultures

<p>This book examines the 'other' side of the countryside a place <em>also</em> inhabited (and visited) by women children teenagers the elderly gay men and lesbians black and ethnic minorities the unemployed and the poor. These groups have remained largely excluded by both rural policies and the representations of rural culture.<br> The book charts the experiences of these marginalised groups and sets this exploration within the context of postmodern poststructuralist postcolonial and late feminist analysis. This theoretical framework reveals how notions of the rural have been created to reflect and reinforce divisions amongst those living in the countryside. </p>