Putting the Barn Before the House : Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York /

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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
Autor principal: Osterud, Nancy Grey, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women in agriculture.
Rural women.
Rural conditions.
Farm life.
Family farms.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Women in agriculture > New York (State) > Nanticoke Valley > History > 20th century.
Rural women > New York (State) > Nanticoke Valley > History > 20th century.
Farm life > New York (State) > Nanticoke Valley > History > 20th century.
Family farms > New York (State) > Nanticoke Valley > History > 20th century.
New York (State) > Nanticoke Valley.
Nanticoke Valley (N.Y.) > Rural conditions.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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.

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