More than a farmer's wife: voices of American farm women, 1910-1960 / Amy Mattson Lauters.
2009
HD6077.2.U6 L38 2009
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More than a farmer's wife: voices of American farm women, 1910-1960 / Amy Mattson Lauters.
Author
Lauters, Amy Mattson, 1972-
ISBN
9780826218520 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
192 p. : ill.
Call Number
HD6077.2.U6 L38 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.1082/0973
Summary
"Examining how women were presented in farming and mainstream magazines over fifty years and interviewing more than 180 women who lived on farms, Lauters reveals that, rather than being victims of patriarchy, most farm women were astute businesswomen, working as partners with their husbands and fundamental to the farming industry"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-179) and index.
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Table of Contents
A sense of place: farm women in history and in theory
Farming and the mass media
Farm women: "the typification of the thing America needs"
A message to farm women: consider "how unique you are"
For farm women: "the only class of workers who are absolutely without representation"
Passing it on
Lives in transition.
Farming and the mass media
Farm women: "the typification of the thing America needs"
A message to farm women: consider "how unique you are"
For farm women: "the only class of workers who are absolutely without representation"
Passing it on
Lives in transition.