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Results confirm the utility of applying models developed from both regional development and feminist theories to understand gender-specific poverty by showing how regional labor market and economic structure differentially influence female- and nonfemale-headed family poverty areas. (Abstract amended)

Spatial & regional analyses are combined with a feminist framework to determine how regional economic structure, local labor markets, & racial composition affect gender-specific poverty rates, using data from 1980 county-level census files for 5 states, including counties in central Appalachia -- an area of historically high poverty levels. The results confirm the utility of applying models developed from both regional development & feminist theories to understand gender-specific poverty by showing how regional labor market & economic structure differentially influence female- & nonfemale-headed family poverty rates. 5 Tables, 42 References. HA

Abstract Rural Sociology faces increasing threats of marginalization from social and economic restructuring of academia and of the larger society in which it is embedded. Contrary to some recent analyses, the problem lies more in the inadequacies of data conceptualization, production, and collection than in the theoretical vitality of the discipline. The failure to match theoretical and conceptual advances with appropriate data leaves sociologists grappling with "modern data to study a postmodern world." Research on the impact of restructuring on social and spatial divisions of labor and the contributions of feminist theory and research to the conceptualization of work and household illustrate the theoretical advances and the empirical deficiencies faced by the discipline. Disciplinary survival and development depend on meeting the challenge of matching theoretical progress with an appropriate empirical base.