1. Introduction: Other Countrysides? / Paul Cloke and Jo Little -- 2. Of Other Rurals? / Chris Philo -- 3. From the Power of Topography to the Topography of Power: A discourse on strange ruralities / Jonathan Murdoch and Andy C. Pratt -- 4. Contrasting Roles for the Post-Productivist Countryside: A postmodern perspective on counterurbanisation / Keith Halfacree -- 5. Anti-Idyll: Rural horror / David Bell -- 6. Making Space: Lesbian separatist communities in the United States / Gill Valentine -- 7. Rurality and 'Cultures of Womanhood': Domestic identities and moral order in village life / Annie Hughes -- 8. Employment Marginality and Women's Self-Identity / Jo Little -- 9. Little Figures, Big Shadows: Country childhood stories / Owain Jones -- 10. Contesting Later Life / Sarah Harper -- 11. Ethnicity and The Rural Environment / Julian Agyeman and Rachel Spooner -- 12. Endangering the Sacred: Nomads, youth cultures and the English countryside / David Sibley.