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

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: To "Lessen Her Heavy Burdens" the Country Life Movement and the Smith-Lever Act

2: "Mother Must Have Every Labor-Saving Convenience " the Modernization Message of the 1920s

3: "A Chance to Live as the City Sisters" the Great Depression and the New Deal

4: "The Man Operating the Farm and the Wife Operating the Household and the Garden" Technology and Gender Roles, 1940

5: "A Call to Farms" "Tractorettes" Go to War

6: "They Figured I Didn't Have a Part in the Farming" the Postwar Era

Conclusion

Notes

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Gendered Fields: Rural Women, Agriculture, and Environment
by Carolyn E. Sachs. 210 pgs.

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Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society

Rural Studies Series

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Tables and Photographs

Acknowledgments

1: Situating Rural Women in Theory and Practice

2: Feminist Theory and Rural Women

3: Rural Women and Nature

4: Rural Women's Connections to the Land

5: Women's Work with Plants

6: Women's Work with Animals

7: Women on Family Farms: A Reappraisal

8: Global Restructuring, Local Outcomes, and the Reshaping of Rural Women's Work

9: Conclusion

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About the Book and Author

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Farm Women: Work, Farm, and Family in the United States
by Rachel Ann Rosenfeld. 354 pgs.

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List of Tables and Figures

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1: Women, Work, and Farming

2: The 1980 Farm Women s Survey

3: Farm and Home Work

4: Farm and Household Decision Making

5: Off-Farm Employment

6: Community and Farm Voluntary Organizations and Political Bodies

7: Self-Perceptions of Farm Women

8: The Study of Farm Women

Appendix: Survey of Farm Women: Women's Questionnaire

References

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Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South
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 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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Mama Learned Us to Work

Introduction

Chapter One: Rolling Stores

Chapter Two: Anything She Could Sell

Chapter Three: The Chicken Business

Chapter Four: Professional Paradoxes

Chapter Five: Women in the Middle

Chapter Six: From Feed Bags to Fashion

Notes

Bibliography

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Women of the Grange: Mutuality and Sisterhood in Rural America, 1866-1920
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 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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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

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1 Graces, Lecturers, and The Changing "Appearance Of Equality"

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2 Teachers, Farmers, and Famous Grangers

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3 Literary Entertainment

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4: Drudgery and Home Economics

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5 Women's Committees

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7 Remaining Tasks and Recent Changes

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Note on Sources

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Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940
by Deborah Fink. 242 pgs.

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Preface

1: Rural Wives and Mothers

2: Agrarianism and Women

3: The Land, the People

4: Settler Wives

5: Rural Wives, Hard Times

6: Mothers, Children, New Farms

7: Mothers and the Depression

8: Agrarian Contradiction

Appendix: Interviews

Notes

References

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Linoleum, Better Babies and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930
by Marilyn Irwin Holt. 250 pgs.

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Introduction

1: The Farm Scene

2: A Life of Domestic Economy

3: A Need for Organization

4: Better Babies and Rural Health

5: "I Wouldn't Leave the Farm, Girls"

6: When the Best Is Better

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliographical Essay

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

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Directions in Applied Anthropology: Adaptations and Innovations

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Preface

1: Commercialization and Women Farmers: Old Paradigms and New Themes

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Part 1: Gender Ideologies and Normative Effects on Commercial Endeavors

2: The Differential Effects of Capitalism and Patriarchy on Women Farmers' Access to Markets in Cameroon

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3: The Myth of the Masculine Market: Gender and Agricultural Commercialization in the Ecuadorean Andes

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4: Extrahousehold Norms and Intrahousehold Bargaining: Gender in Sudan and Burkina Faso

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5: Income, Productivity, and Evolving Gender Relations in Two Tahitian Islands

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6: Women Are Good with Money: the Impact of Cash Cropping on Class Relations and Gender Ideology in Northern Luzon, the Philippines

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Part 2: Commercialization's Effects on Household Food Security, Nutrition, and Food Distribution Systems

7: Kofyar Women Who Get Ahead: Incentives for Agricultural Commercialization in Nigeria

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8: Women Farmers, Small Plots, and Changing Markets in China

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9: The Fields Are Full of Gold: Women's Marketing of Wild Foods from Rice Fields in Southeast Asia and the Impacts of Pesticides and Integrated Pest Management

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10: Does Gender Matter for the Nutritional Consequences of Agricultural Commercialization? Intrahousehold Transfers, Food Acquisition, and Export Cropping in Guatemala

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11: Entrepreneurs and Family Well-Being: Women's Agricultural and Trading Strategies in Cameroon

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12: Small-Scale Traders' Key Role in Stabilizing and Diversifying Ghana's Rural Communities and Livelihoods

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Part 3: New Technologies, Marketing Opportunities, and Organizational Structures

13: Men, Women, and Cotton: Contract Agriculture for Subsistence Farmers in Northern Ghana

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14: Women and Export Agriculture: the Case of Banana Production on St. Vincent in the Eastern Caribbean

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15: Agricultural Commercialization and Women Farmers in Kenya

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16: The Importance of Gender Issues in Revitalizing Commercial Agriculture in Suriname

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17: Sweet and Sour Grapes: the Struggles of Seasonal Women Workers in Chile

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18: Epilogue: Next Steps

References Cited

Selected Bibliography

The Contributors

Index

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

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`Farmers' Wives': Women Who are Off-Farm Breadwinners and the Implications for On-Farm Gender Relations, in Journal of Sociology
by Roisin Kelly, Sally Shortall. 18 pgs.

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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
by Ann K. Carruth, Cynthia A. Logan. 16 pgs.

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Structural Adjustment and African Women Farmers
by Christina H. Gladwin. 418 pgs.

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Introduction

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I Structural Adjustment and Transformation

1: Structural Adjustment and Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

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2: Women, Structural Adjustment, and Transformation: Some Lessons and Questions From the African Experience

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3: Getting Priorities Right: Structural Transformation and Strategic Notions

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II Impacts of Structural Adjustment on Women Farmers

4: Policies to Overcome the Negative Effects of Structural Adjustment Programs on African Female-Headed Households

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5: The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs on Women and their Households in Bendel and Ogun States, Nigeria

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6: Women and Structural Adjustment in Zaire

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7: The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs on Rural Women in Tanzania

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8: Fertilizer Subsidy Removal Programs and Their Potential Impacts on Women Farmers in Malawi and Cameroon

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9: Women Traders in Ghana and the Structural Adjustment Program

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III Impacts of Structural Transformation and Adjustment Policies

10: The Ideology and Political Economy of Gender: Women and Land in Nso, Cameroon

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11: Women's Agricultural Work in a Multimodal Rural Economy: Ibarapa District, Oyo State, Nigeria

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12: Structural Transformation and Its Consequences for Orma Women Pastoralists

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IV Debate on the Economy of Affection: Is It a Useful Tool for Gender Analysis?

Introduction

V Where Do We Go from Here?

1: New Women's Organizations in Nigeria: One Response to Structural Adjustment

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14: The Role of Home Economics Agents in Rural Development Programs in Northern Nigeria: Impacts of Structural Adjustment

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15: Curriculum Planning for Women and Agricultural Households: The Case of Cameroon

16: Women Farmers, Structural Adjustment, and FAO's Plan of Action for Integration of Women in Development

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Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages
by Nicola Verdon. 232 pgs.

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Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages

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Acknowledgements

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Introduction: Rural Women Workers: the Forgotten Labour Force

1: Women, Work and Wages in Historical Perspective

2: Differing Views of Rural Women's Work in Documentary Material

3: Women in the Agricultural Labour Market Female Farm Servants

4: Women in the Agricultural Labour Market Female Day Labourers

5: Alternative Employment Opportunities Domestic Industries

6: Survival Strategies Women, Work and the Informal Economy

Conclusion: Assessing Women's Work

Bibliography

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Partners in Production? Women, Farm and Family in Ireland
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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1: Women in Family Farming in Ireland

2: Women, Farm and Family in Ireland

3: Researching Women in Farm Families

4: Creating the Farm Family

5: Inside the Family Farm

6: Inside the Farm Family

7: Securing the Future the Reproductive Role of Farm Women

8: Women in Family Farming in Ireland

Bibliography

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Russian Peasant Women
by Beatrice Farnsworth, Lynne Viola. 304 pgs.

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I: Peasant Women Before the Revolution

1: The Peasant Way of Life

2: Temptress or Virgin? The Precarious Sexual Position of Women in Postemancipation Ukrainian Peasant Society

3: Peasant Women and Their Work

4: Razdel: The Peasant Family Divided

5: The Litigious Daughter-in-Law: Family Relations in Rural Russia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

6: Childbirth and Culture: Midwifery in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Countryside

7: To Save Oneself: Russian Peasant Women and the Development of Women's Religious Communities in Prerevolutionary Russia

II: Peasant Women After the Revolution

8: Village Women Experience the Revolution

9: Rural Women and the Law: Divorce and Property Rights in the 1920s

10: Bab'i Bunty and Peasant Women's Protest During Collectivization

11: Women in the Soviet Countryside on the Eve of World War II, 1935-1940

12: The Role of Women in Soviet Agriculture

13: Soviet Rural Women: Employment and Family Life

14: Rural Women and Glasnost

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