RP20. WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS
(updated: March 22, 2006 )

• Detailed Topic Index / Main Planning bibliographies Index
• For relevant addresses, telephone/fax numbers, email & website addresses see
  PLANNING & PLANNING RELATED ORGANISATIONS
  
  See also the Countryside Planning index, Structure Planning / Local planning / and in particular:-
• Agric. / AONBs / Archaeology / Camping & caravanning / Coastal plg. / Commons & village greens / Community forests / Comparative rural plg. / C'side management & conservation / C'side plg. (gen.) / C'side stewardship /
  Fish farming / Green Belts / Gypsy & traveller sites / Hedgerows / Historic parks & gardens / Horseriding /
  Landscape / National Parks / National Trust / Pond conservation /
  Recreation & leisure plg. / Redundant military bases / Rights of way / River valleys/flooding / Rural Challenge /
  Rural design / Rural emplt., diversification/regen. / Rural hsg. / Rural pressure groups / Rural settlements /
  Rural services / Rural social exclusion / Rural soil resources / Rural strategies / Rural sust'bility / Rural tourism /
  Rural transp. / Rural water resources /
• Telecommunications / Trees, forestry etc. / Urban fringe / Village appraisals / Wind farms /
• and also:
• Central gov. / Local gov. / Parish & Community Councils in the Central & Local Gov. context for planning bibliography
• Crime, social safety & plg. in the Urban Regeneration bibliography
• Development Plans: (Regional plg. / Structure plg. / LDDs & LDFs / Local plg. / Unitary Dev. Plans (UDPs),
• Plg. aid / Plg. conditions / Plg. consultancy / Plg. enforcement / Plg. implementation / Urban Design in
  the Effectiveness of Planning etc. bibliography
• Women & the environment in the Sustainable Development (Green Issues in Planning) bibliography
• Women & transp. in the Sustainable urban travel bibliography
• Women, hsg. & plg. in the Local Planning bibliography
• N.B. also the RTPI library catalogue on the web - go to http://www.rtpi.org.uk - then to library
• and see the National Federation of Womens' Institutes (NFWI) website: http://www.nfwi.org.uk

OFL = Ordered for Library - see University Library catalogue for latest on availability:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/
* indicates more useful and/or up to date references

Buller, Henry & Hoggart, Keith, (eds.), 2004, 'Women in the European Countryside', Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, ISBN 0 7546 3946 0

Cloke, Paul & Little, Jo, 1997, 'The other countryside', ?,

Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring, 2005, '2004 Global Report', GEN, http://www.gemconsortium.org/document.asp?id=364

Glover, Ros, 1996, 'Rural women: Prospects for the future', Built Environment 22 (1), pp45-47.

Little, Jo, 1990, 'Rural idyll? Planning for women in rural areas', WEB (Women and the Built Environment), Issue 15/16, Autumn, pp24-25.
Little, Jo & Austin, Patricia, 1996, 'Women and the rural idyll', Journal of Rural Studies, 12 (2).
*Little, Jo, 1999, 'Gender and rural policy', Chapter 4 in Greed, Clara, (ed.) 'Social Town Planning', Routledge, London. HT133.S6
Little, Jo, 2001, 'Gender and Rural Geography', Pearson Education, Harlow, Essex, ISBN 0582381886
Little, Jo & Morris, Carol, 2005, 'Critical studies in Rural Gender Issues', Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, http://www.ashgate.com ISBN 0 7546 3517 1
Little, Jo; .Panelli, R;. Kraack, A, 2005, 'Women's fear of crime: A rural perspective', Journal of Rural Studies 21 (2), pp151-163, :
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=CONTENTS&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S074301670500015X&_version=1&md5=a514e4332a19d766438f598ee7e8dc94 Little, Jo & Morris, Carol, (eds.), 2005, 'Critical Studies in Rural Gender Issues', Avebury, Aldershot, Hampshire. ISBN 0 7546 3517 1
Little, J; Midgley, J, 2006, ‘Gendered economies: Transferring private gender roles into the public realm through rural community development’, Journal of Rural Studies, 2 (2), April, pp217-231,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=CONTENTS&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S0743016705000823&_version=1&md5=3a0e85a65893033e9128ec1ba03fcbd4

Rural Development Commission (RDC) (merged on 1.4.99 with the Countryside Commission to form the Countryside Agency),'Women in employment in rural areas', (Research Report 10), RDR10, RDC, 1991 (RDC publictions now available from TCA Publications, Northampton, tel. (01604) 781848

Schmied, Doris, (ed.) 2005, 'Winning and Losing: The Changing Geography of Europe's Rural Areas', Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, http://www.ashgate.com ISBN 0 7546 4101 5

The Countryside Agency (formed in April 1999 from the merger of the Countryside Commission with
the Rural Development Commission) - website: http://www.countryside.gov.uk -
TCA Publications available from TCA Postal Sales, Two-Ten Communications, Ltd,
760 Thorp Arch Estate, Wetherby, LS27 3EL,
tel. (0870) 120 6466, fax. (0870) 120 6467, minicom (0870) 120 7405,
email: countryside@twoten.press.net
- website http://www.twoten.press.net
'The role and contribution of women to rural economies', Report for the Countryside Agency, CA97, 2002.
'The Role of Women in the Rural Economy: An important rural resource', June 2003,
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=15720&heading=e-mail+alert

Whatmore, S., 1991, 'Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise', Macmillan, London.

YWCA, 2002, 'Beyond the Bus Shelter - Young Womens' Choices and Challengers in Rural Areas', YWCA, Oxford, tel. (01865) 304215, October.