Opening windows onto hidden lives : women, country life, and early rural sociological research /

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"Examines the embeddedness of rural and farm women's lives in rural sociological research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life (1919-1953). Explores how early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses"--Provided...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zimmerman, Julie N.
Other Authors: Larson, Olaf F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.
Series:Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)
Subjects:
United States. > Bureau of Agricultural Economics. > Division of Farm Population and Rural Life.
United States. > Bureau of Agricultural Economics. > Division of Farm Population and Rural Life
Rural women > United States > Social conditions.
Sociology, Rural > United States > History.
Sociologie rurale > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Rural conditions
Rural women > Social conditions
Sociology, Rural
Agrarsoziologie
Landfrau
Landleben
United States > Rural conditions.
United States
USA
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Hidden windows, hidden lives. Opening hidden windows ; "Agriculture is not the whole of country life" ; Women and rural society -;Finding women in the division's research ; The test of time
  • Selected bibliography. Citations from the Work of the Division of Farm Population and Rural life, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953
  • Reprints of selected publications. Woman's work on the farm (1917) ; The woman on the farm (1914) ; Recommendations of the Committee (1919) ; Farm life studies and their relation to home economics work (1920) / Charles J. Galpin ; The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished manuscript (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.

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