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Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 » Read Now
by Katherine Jellison. 217 pgs.

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...Sicherman Entitled to POWER Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 Katherine...Jellison, Katherine Entitled to power: farm women and technology, 1913-1963 / by...1930 62 2.5...
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Gendered Fields: Rural Women, Agriculture, and Environment » Read Now
by Carolyn E. Sachs. 210 pgs.

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...Farmwives, Housewives, Farm Women, or Women Farmers , 134...womens work. For example, studies of farm women in the United States revealed that...typically inhabit. Thus, in...
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Farm Women: Work, Farm, and Family in the United States » Read Now
by Rachel Ann Rosenfeld. 354 pgs.

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...Farm Women Institute for Research in Social Science...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Farm Women Work, Farm, and Family in the United...Publication Data...
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Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South » Read Now
by Lu Ann Jones. 250 pgs.

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Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in "Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these women as consumers, producers, and agents of...
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Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in "Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these women as consumers, producers, and agents of economic and cultural change.
As consumers, farm women bargained with peddlers at their backdoors. A key business for many farm women was the "butter and egg trade"--small-scale dairying and raising chickens. Their earnings provided a crucial margin of economic safety for many families during the 1920s and 1930s and offered women some independence from their men folks. These innovative women showed that poultry production paid off and laid the foundation for the agribusiness poultry industry that emerged after World War II. Jones also examines the relationships between farm women and home demonstration agents and the effect of government-sponsored rural reform. She discusses the professional culture that developed among white agents as they reconciled new and old ideas about women's roles and shows that black agents, despite prejudice, linked their clients to valuable government resources and gave new meanings to traditions of self-help, mutual aid, and racial uplift.
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Women of the Grange: Mutuality and Sisterhood in Rural America, 1866-1920 » Read Now
by Donald B. Marti. 162 pgs.

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Marti takes a detailed look at the women of the Grange from 1866 through the early 20th century. He deflates some of the claims that have been made for the order's liberating influence, but still takes that influence very seriously, exploring the opportunities for sociability and cooperation that...
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Marti takes a detailed look at the women of the Grange from 1866 through the early 20th century. He deflates some of the claims that have been made for the order's liberating influence, but still takes that influence very seriously, exploring the opportunities for sociability and cooperation that fostered sisterhood and encouraged women to pursue their distinctive interests. From the promise of equality made by the founders, to the role the Grange played in promoting equal suffrage, women's roles are fully analyzed in relation to both mutuality with men and sisterhood with each other.
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Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940 » Read Now
by Deborah Fink. 242 pgs.

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...introduces the question of the position of farm women and grounds the inquiry in the particularity...prosperity, a national survey of farm women revealed that the majority...
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Linoleum, Better Babies and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930 » Read Now
by Marilyn Irwin Holt. 250 pgs.

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Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures: Increasing Food Security in Developing Countries » Read Now
by Anita Spring. 419 pgs.

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The Great Agricultural Transition: Crisis, Change, and Social Consequences of Twentieth Century US Farming, in Annual Review of Sociology » Read Now
by Linda Lobao, Katherine Meyer. 22 pgs.

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...farm population, family farming, farm women * Abstract One of the most profound...by gender as a large literature on farm women indicates. Womens role in farming...whether...
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`Farmers' Wives': Women Who are Off-Farm Breadwinners and the Implications for On-Farm Gender Relations, in Journal of Sociology » Read Now
by Roisin Kelly, Sally Shortall. 18 pgs.

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...the farm. International research on farm women in the past has shown that their...discuss the current position of those farm women who are off-farm breadwinners...
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Depressive Symptoms in Farm Women: Effects of Health Status and Farming Lifestyle Characteristics, Behaviors, and Beliefs, in Journal of Community Health » Read Now
by Ann K. Carruth, Cynthia A. Logan. 16 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Depressive symptoms in farm women: effects of health status and farming...beliefs on depressive symptoms in farm women. Health and Depressive Symptoms...contributes to the...
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Structural Adjustment and African Women Farmers » Read Now
by Christina H. Gladwin. 418 pgs.

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...crises in the 1990s; and women, especially female-headed...and lower nutrition, more farm work, less control of...agricultural skills modern farm women need. In line with...
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Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages » Read Now
by Nicola Verdon. 232 pgs.

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Partners in Production? Women, Farm and Family in Ireland » Read Now
by Patricia O'Hara. 182 pgs.

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In Ireland, family farming is one of the last preserves of male dominance, in which women's concerns are overlooked. Based mainly on interviews with farm women, O'Hara's study identifies the ways in which they challenge their apparent subordination.
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Russian Peasant Women » Read Now
by Beatrice Farnsworth, Lynne Viola. 304 pgs.

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...A woman might, in fact, be burdened with more domestic and farm work in a nuclear than a multiple family, but she worked independently...under way, was the first step in...