More than a farmer's wife voices of American farm women, 1910-1960 /

"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...

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Main Author: Lauters, Amy Mattson, 1972-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2009.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.