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The Midwest farmer's daughter : in search of an American icon /

From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter unearths the untold history and renewed cultural currency of an American icon at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned. From farm women bloggers, to "back-to-the-la...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jack, Zachary Michael, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: pioneering women
  • Part one
  • The gingham girl in the Google Age
  • The Midwest farmer's daughter
  • How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm?
  • Raising Farmer Jane
  • The chores of being a farm girl
  • Welk Girls and Daisy Dukes
  • Milkmaids in Manhattan
  • Part two
  • Little houses on the prairie
  • Future farm daughters of America
  • Ag-vocating women
  • Community-supported agriculture
  • Female farmers
  • Farmerettes in the farm city
  • Her daughter has a dynamo.