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Introduction: representing rural women / Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith -- Representations of rural women in literature and film -- "Gone country" : literary depictions of the new woman in rurality / Adam Nemmers -- Reassessing the American migration experience : the dollmaker's Gertie nevels as an American working-class heroine / Laurie Cella -- A quiet, debilitating ailment : racial isolation and rural America in Willa Cather and Zora Neale Hurston's experimental fiction / Jericho Williams -- Ginseng-gathering women : the underground economy in five appalachian novels / Jimmy Dean Smith -- The potential to reform rural fingerbone : Sylvie's new western revolution in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping / Amanda Zastrow -- Rural spaces and (in)disposable bodies in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Jim Coby -- Codes of kinship : rural poverty and female resilience in Winter's Bone / H. Louise Davis and Whitney Womack Smith -- Rural trans girlhoods in young adult fiction / Barbara Pini and Wendy Keys -- Rural women's self-representations -- Poetic representations of Mormon women in late nineteenth-century frontier America / Amy Easton-Flake -- Lightning strikes, burned bread & chipmunks : women lookouts in the American West / Nancy Cook -- A life in the country : lesbians and feminists living on the land / Agatha Beins and Julie Enszer -- On rural transgender visibility / Eli Erlick -- Visual and digital representations of Canadian rural women's organizations / Margaret Thomas-Evans -- "Pining for high fashion" : rural women writing on fashion online / Holly Kent -- Fantasies and phobias : de-mythologizing contemporary and historical depictions of rural women / Elizabeth Thompson -- Index -- About the editors -- About the contributors.

Purpose. Examine the impact of "point of decision" messages on fruit selection in a single dining hall setting. Setting. Competitive undergraduate liberal arts college in the southeastern United States. Intervention. "Point of decision" messages were compiled into a 35-slide multimedia PowerPoint presentation. Messages were displayed on a computer screen at a "point of decision" between the cookie and fruit stations during lunch for a total of 9 days. Measures. Baseline cookie and fruit consumption was measured 9 days prebaseline and 9 days postbaseline. A random sample of students completed surveys 1 week after the intervention. Analysis. t-tests were used to examine differences between prelevels of fruit consumption and levels measured simultaneously during "point of decision" messages. Descriptive statistics were used to examine perceptions of survey items 1 week postintervention. Results. A significant mean difference in daily fruit consumption was found following the slide presentation (df-8, t = − 2.800; p = .023). Average daily fruit consumption at baseline was 408 (SD = 73.43). Postbaseline average daily fruit consumption significantly increased (533; SD = 102). No significant prebaseline and postbaseline cookie differences were found (p = .226). Approximately 71% of women and 68% of men noticed the "point of decision" messages. Nineteen percent of women and 10% of males reported modifying their food selection as a result of viewing the messages. Conclusion. The "point of decision" messaging significantly influenced fruit selection in a single dining hall setting. (Am J Health Promot 2011;25[5]:298-300.)

Representing Rural Women examines representations of the lives and experiences of rural women in North American literature, popular culture, and print, visual, and digital media. It highlights the complexity and diversity of rural women by considering intersecting issues of region, class, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and gender identity.