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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Devine, Jenny Barker
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Political activity.
Women political activists.
Women in agriculture.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Femmes en agriculture > Iowa.
Femmes activistes > Iowa.
Femmes > Activite politique > Iowa.
Women in agriculture > Iowa.
Women political activists > Iowa.
Women > Political activity > Iowa.
Iowa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 dramatically altered rural life, midwestern women met these challenges with their own feminine vision of farm life. Their "agrarian feminisms" offered an alternative to, but not necessarily a rejection of, second-wave feminism.
Physical Description:1 online resource (203 pages).
ISBN:9781609381707

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