Rural Womyn Zone

"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is." - Gertrude Stein

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The Clyde Report
Towanda Weather
Why Towanda?

Rural Womyn Zone
Established in 1997 as a virtual community to provide information, outreach, support and a networking base for rural women and their nonprofit organizations and grass roots activities.

The Zone publishes news and information for rural women and by rural women and accesses news and other resources useful to rural women.

The Zone respond to this statement from Carolyn Sachs, who wrote in Gendered Fields:

“One challenge faced by scholars involves how to avoid colonizing the voices of rural women, and how instead to seriously face and understand the different contexts of rural women’s lives. . Feminist theorists.. ..remain caught in a bind. We call for marginalized groups of women to add their perspectives to feminist discourse and practice in order to enable subjects to speak for themselves, but we realize that the academic and literary worlds are closed or alien to many of these women.”

Ruralwomyn Zone Email List
The community behind the web site.

Rural Woman Zone Bloggers
Rural women on politics, gender, culture, feminism, social change, social networks, health care, reproductive rights, women's rights, more.

Rural Literacies
by By Kim Donehower, Charlotte Hogg, Eileen E Schell
This book addresses the intersection of place, gender, and public memory. It uses The Rural Womyn Zone as one example of how "technology can endorse and support literacy and education can be a critical, public pedagogy of place." Buy Rural Literacies from Tattered Cover

Rural Literacies and The Rural Womyn Zone - RWZ blogs about the book

Violence Against Rural Women News Blog

Jane Lane
Twitters from Towanda
"Jane Lane" twitters topics that rural women are talking about behind the scenes. Politics, gender, health, jobs, sustainable communities, environment, more. Bio: Jane Lane lives mainly on the plains where it very seldom rains. Follow Jane on Twitter.

Rural Women Zone Facebook
News, information, links

Rural Woman's Breast Cancer Journal

Archives

The Lighter Side of Rural
Feminist Organizing
Yellow Towanda Quilt
Photo Album
What is "rural"?
Books about "rural"

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OUTSIDE LINKS

Carsey Reports
From the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire

Rural Areas Risk Being Overlooked in the 2010 Census

Federal Child Nutrition Programs Are Important to Rural Areas

Students in Rural Areas Have Less Access to Advances Mathematics Courses

Rural and Urban Children Have Lower Rates of Health Insurance Coverage and are More Often Covered by Public Plans

Single Rural Working Mothers Have Less Access to Family Friendly Work Policies

Rural Women Working Harder for the Money

Urban and rural children experience similar rate of poverty.

Place Matters: Opportunities and Challenges in Four Rural Americas

U.S. Rural Soldiers Account for Disproportionately High Share of Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan

Carsey reports on substance abuse in rural and small town America