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Putting the barn before the house : women and family farming in early-twentieth-century New York /

Putting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints of women born before World War I who lived on family farms in south-central New York. As she did in her previous book, Bonds of Community, for an earlier period in history, Grey Osterud explores the flexible and varied ways that fa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Osterud, Nancy Grey, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the Nanticoke Valley in the early twentieth century
  • Putting the barn before the house
  • Women's place on the land
  • "Buying a farm on a small capital"
  • The transformation of agriculture and the rural economy
  • Sharing and dividing farm work
  • Intergenerational and marital partnerships
  • Wage-earning and farming families
  • Negotiating working relationships
  • Forming cooperatives and taking collective action
  • Home economics and farm family economies
  • Conclusion : gender, mutuality, and community in retrospect.