‘You Have Neither Neighbours Nor Privacy’: Ambiguities in the Experience of Emotional Well Being of Women in Farming Families
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This paper explores findings from an ethnographic study of relations of dependency within agricultural communities in the Northern region. Using a life course perspective it focuses on the cultural strategies which women draw upon to deal with the changing constraints, emotional stresses and loneliness of marrying into a farming family. Accounts from women occupying different generational positions demonstrate how they manage to achieve personal wellbeing through creative resolution of the different ambiguities involved in being a ‘country girl’, a ‘farmer's wife’ and a ‘gran’.
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