Chapter 1: Introduction, Barbara Pini, Berit Brandth and Jo Little Chapter 2: Putting the Community First: Feminism and Rural American Women's Activism in the Twentieth Century, Sara Egge and Jenny Barker Devine Chapter 3: A Rural Woman's Impact on Canadian Feminist Practice and Theory, Susan Machum Chapter 4: Feminism in Rural Finland: A Comparison of Agendas of Two Women's Organizations, Maarit Sireni Chapter 5: Paradoxes of a Women's Organization in the Forestry Industry, Berit Brandth, Gro Follo and Marit S. Haugen Chapter 6: Gender Mainstreaming or Strategic Essentialism? How to Achieve Rural Gender Equality, Sally Shortall Chapter 7: Feminist Connections in and beyond the Rural, Belinda Leach Chapter 8: The Feminist and the Cowboy: Reading "An Unlikely Love Story", Barbara Pini and Imelda Whelehan Chapter 9: The Development of Feminist Perspectives in Rural Gender Studies, Jo Little Chapter 10: Finding 'Room to Manoeuvre' - Gender, Agency and the Family Farm, Anne Byrne, Nata Duvvury, Áine Macken-Walsh and Tanya Watson Chapter 11: The Gendered Ma(i)ze of Globalization, Jennifer Rogers-Brown Chapter 12: Rural Queer Theory, Julie Keller Chapter 13: Girls' Studies in the Rural, Kate Cairns Chapter 14: Reflections on a Feminist Care Approach to Rural Fisheries Communities, Nicole Power Chapter 15: Memory Work and Reflexive Gendered Bodies: Examining Rural Landscapes in the Making, Lia Bryant and Mona Livholts Chapter 16: Conclusion, Barbara Pini, Jo Little and Berit Brandth.