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On Behalf of the Family Farm : Iowa Farm Women's Activism since 1945 /

This book traces the development of women's activism and agrarian feminisms in the Midwest after 1945, as farm women's lives were being transformed by the realities of modern agriculture. The author demonstrates that in an era when technology, depopulation, and rapid economic change dramat...

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Autor principal: Devine, Jenny Barker
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a This Rich Gift of Voluntary Leadership : Rural Women's Activism in Iowa -- As Natural a Process : Women's Leadership in Township Farm Bureau Clubs -- Does Your Man Belong to the Farmers Union? : Women and Cold War Politics in the Iowa Farmers Union -- Because Somebody Had to Do It : Women, Families, and the National Farmers Organization -- Hop to the Top with the Iowa Chop : The Iowa Porkettes and Transformative Leadership -- Conclusion. 
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