Product Description: Combines theoretical debates with a wide range of original empirical research, introducing new material on gender identity and the performance of masculinity and feminity in rural areas, contributing to the development of existing theory in this area.

Product Description: The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents, struggles and consequences of urban and regional planning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Gender and Rural Geography explores the relationship between gender and rurality. Feminist theory, gender relations and sexuality have all become central concerns of geographical research, and significant progress has been made in terms of our understanding of both the broad relationship between gender and geography and the more detailed differences in the lives of men and women over space...read more

This book examines the 'other' side of the countryside, a place also 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. 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. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Planning has a central essential legitimacy in addressing social goals. Despite the ideal position of planning in being able to initiate, encourage and strengthen the links between the theory and practice of feminism in its relationship with gender, planning can act against women's interests and thus reinforce the unequal distribution of powers between the sexes, not only within the planning discipline but also in the assumptions and pratice in our use of the built environments...read more

Product Description: In this investigation of planning and policy-making procedures for rural areas, the authors seek to alter our view of the rural planning process by taking account of recent developments in social science theory. Skillfully mixing theory with an empirical case study of Gloucestershire, and supplemented by international perspectives on the role of the state and the operation of the policy process in rural areas, this volume interprets planning as a political activity of the state, and illustrates the constraints imposed by the state on what is practical at the local level...read more