Join Professor Jo Little from The University of Exeter, as she discusses her new paper 'From Cream Teas to Trauma: the development and contribution of feminist perspectives in rural geography.'

In this paper I chart the development of feminist approaches to the study of rural society and community. I look briefly at the shifts in understanding of rural gender relations from discussions of power and identity to more contemporary work on performance and emotion. In contemplating more recent directions, the paper draws on original research in two key areas; sexuality and intimate violence. In so doing it explores the contribution of recent work on trauma, love and mental wellbeing to gendered experiences of rurality in the UK and New Zealand.

There will be refreshments after, with the lecture and discussion lasting around 80 minutes.

Professor Jo Little is a Professor of Gender and Geography at the University of Exeter. She is our inaugural Alice Garnett Public Lecturer, visiting TUoS Geogrpahy Department in February.

Profesor Little's research has had two main strands - rural geography and gender and geography. A number of projects have combined the two interests. She has worked for many years on rural women's employment and identity. Most recently she has researched issues of gender and fear in rural communities and, in particular, the experience of and response to domestic violence and abuse in the countryside.