TY - JOUR AU - Tigges, Leann AU - Quark, Amy PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Paper Assignment: Gender and Work in Rural America JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/paper-assignment-gender-and-work-in-rural-america SP - AB - You can choose whatever topic interests you, as long as it addresses gender, work and rural areas in some way. Below is a list of possible topics. This is far from an exhaustive list, but rather some suggestions to get your sociological imagination working. Consider how gender intersects with: rural communities fighting Wal-mart, sustainable agriculture, dependent counties (agriculture, mining, manufacturing, service-work, recreation, retirementdestination,etc.), persistent poverty counties, work in the service sector (wages, who works there)activism on rural-related issues, migration/migrant workers, unions, sexuality in rural areas,local food/farmers' markets, access to daycare, female entrepreneurs in rural areas, access to health insurance, domestic violence, sexual harassment, reproductive rights, elderly care, women and land ownership, pesticide drift and migrant workers, undocumented workers and access to driver's licenses, women and on-farm decision-making/farm management, women and off-farm work. ER -