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

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, Bryant explores key moments of hope across the life trajectories of a group of intersectionally diverse women.

Lia Bryant is a Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia who specialises in the field of gender and rurality, codesign and creative methods. She has over 100 publications and has co-authored Gender and Rurality (2011), Water and Rural Communities: Local Meanings, Politics and Place (2016). Bryant has also edited and coedited 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 (2107).