Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31352
Title: Disrupted gender roles in Australian agriculture: first generation female farmers’ construction of farming identity
Contributor(s): Newsome, Lucie  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2021-09
Early Online Version: 2021-01-24
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-021-10192-3
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31352
Abstract: This article examines the experiences of female farmers in the Australian context who neither married into nor were born into farming and how they construct their farmer identity. Drawing on interviews with seventeen first generation female farmers it demonstrates a detraditionalized farmer identity created in response to concern for environmental and social sustainability. They are enabled by an online, global community of practice and shifting narratives of what constitutes responsible farming. Participants leveraged their skills from previous occupations to their farming enterprises to internalize a managerial and entrepreneurial farming identity. First generation female farmers have been empowered as new actors in Australian agriculture, reflecting a disruption in traditional patterns of gendered privilege.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Agriculture and Human Values, 38(3), p. 803-814
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 1572-8366
0889-048X
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 150314 Small Business Management
070106 Farm Management, Rural Management and Agribusiness
169901 Gender Specific Studies
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 350716 Small business organisation and management
300208 Farm management, rural management and agribusiness
440504 Gender relations
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940501 Employment Patterns and Change
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 230501 Employment patterns and change
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
UNE Business School

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