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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Women and farming.
(Rural studies series)
[Papers from] the Second National Conference on
American Farm Women in Historical Perspective, held in
Madison, Wisconsin, on October 1618, 1986Foreword.
Includes index.
1. Women in AgricultureUnited StatesCongresses.
I. Heney, Wava G. II. Knowles, Jane B. III. National
Conference on American Farm Women in Historical
Perspective (2nd: 1986: Madison, Wis.) IV. Series:
Rural studies series (Boulder, Colo.)
HD6073.A292U68 1988 331.4'83'0973 88-17170
ISBN 13: 978-0-3672-1358-9 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-3672-1639-9 (pbk)
DOI: 10.4324/9780429267666
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Wava G. Haney and Jane B. Knowles
The Impact of Social and Economic Change on Farm Women
1 Tore Up and a-Movin: Perspectives on the Work of Black and Poor White Women in the Rural South, 1865-1940
Jacqueline Jones
2 Making Women into Farmers Wives: The Native American Experience in the Inland Northwest
Dolores Janiewski
3 Sidelines and Moral Capital: Women on Nebraska Farms in the 1930s
Deborah Fink
Portraits of Farm Womens Lives
4 Land, Identity, and Agency in the Oral Autobiographies of Farm Women
Nancy Grey Osterud
5 Image and Behavior: Womens Participation in North American Family Agricultural Enterprises
Seena B. Kohl
6 This Countrys Hard on Women and Oxen: A Study of the Images of Farm Women in American Fiction
Julia Hornbostel
Farm Womens Economic Roles
7 The Participation of Women and Girls in Market and Non-Market Activities on Pennsylvania Farms
Carolyn E. Sachs
8 Off-Farm Labor Allocation by Married Farm Women: Research Review and New Evidence from Wisconsin
Mary R. McCarthy, Priscilla Salant, and William E. Saupe
9 A Characterization of the Kentucky Farm Moonlighter
Mary Harmon
10 Marital Status and Independent Farming: The Importance of Family Labor Flexibility to Farm Outcomes
Rachel A. Rosenfeld and Leann M. Tigges
Farm Women and Resource Control
11 Farm Continuity and Female Land Inheritance: A Family Dilemma
Sonya Salamon and Karen Davis-Brown
12 Agricultural Mechanization and American Farm Womens Economic Roles
Lorraine Garkovich and Janet Bokemeier
13 The Impact of Changing Technologies on the Roles of Farm and Ranch Wives in Southeastern Ohio
Virginia S. Fink
Farm Women in Comparative and Historical Perspective
14 Women and Farming: Changing Structures, Changing Roles
Sarah Elbert
15 Public Policy and Women in Agricultural Production: A Comparative and Historical Analysis
Cornelia Butler Flora
16 Farm Women and the Structural Transformation of Agriculture: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Kathleen Cloud
Farm Womens Community and Political Roles
17 Its Our Turn Now: Rural American Women Speak Out, 1900-1920
Jane B. Knowles
18 Helping Papa and Mamma Sing the Peoples Songs: Children in the Populist Party
MaryJo Wagner
19 Building the Base: Farm Women, the Rural Community, and Farm Organizations in the Midwest, 1900-1940
Mary Neth
20 Farm Women in the Political Arena
Lorna Clancy Miller and Mary Neth
- The Impact of Social and Economic Change on Farm Women
- 1 Tore Up and a-Movin: Perspectives on the Work of Black and Poor White Women in the Rural South, 1865-1940
- 2 Making Women into Farmers Wives: The Native American Experience in the Inland Northwest
- 3 Sidelines and Moral Capital: Women on Nebraska Farms in the 1930s
- Portraits of Farm Womens Lives
- 4 Land, Identity, and Agency in the Oral Autobiographies of Farm Women
- 5 Image and Behavior: Womens Participation in North American Family Agricultural Enterprises
- 6 This Countrys Hard on Women and Oxen: A Study of the Images of Farm Women in American Fiction
- Farm Womens Economic Roles
- 7 The Participation of Women and Girls in Market and Non-Market Activities on Pennsylvania Farms
- 8 Off-Farm Labor Allocation by Married Farm Women: Research Review and New Evidence from Wisconsin
- 9 A Characterization of the Kentucky Farm Moonlighter
- 10 Marital Status and Independent Farming: The Importance of Family Labor Flexibility to Farm Outcomes
- Farm Women and Resource Control
- 11 Farm Continuity and Female Land Inheritance: A Family Dilemma
- 12 Agricultural Mechanization and American Farm Womens Economic Roles
- 13 The Impact of Changing Technologies on the Roles of Farm and Ranch Wives in Southeastern Ohio
- Farm Women in Comparative and Historical Perspective
- 14 Women and Farming: Changing Structures, Changing Roles
- 15 Public Policy and Women in Agricultural Production: A Comparative and Historical Analysis
- 16 Farm Women and the Structural Transformation of Agriculture: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Farm Womens Community and Political Roles
- 17 Its Our Turn Now: Rural American Women Speak Out, 1900-1920
- 18 Helping Papa and Mamma Sing the Peoples Songs: Children in the Populist Party
- 19 Building the Base: Farm Women, the Rural Community, and Farm Organizations in the Midwest, 1900-1940
- 20 Farm Women in the Political Arena
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