Agricultural body-building: Incorporations of gender, body and work [An article from: Journal of Rural Studies] Review

Agricultural body-building: Incorporations of gender, body and work [An article from: Journal of Rural Studies]

This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper is concerned with gendered embodiment of agricultural work, particularly the connection between women’s gender identity and the body at work. Focussing on how the body enters into relations with the tools of work, four processes are identified by which women’s bodies, work and machinery are incorporated into each other and give each other meaning. In the first category women’s embodied competences are merged with the qualities of machinery much the same way as men. The second shows how women work to uphold a definition of their bodies as feminine despite the fact that they operate machinery. The third process shows that when machine work is incorporated into farm women’s traditional work on the farm

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