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The Rise of Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture /

A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture - they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. In this book, farm women in the northeastern United States describe how they got into farming and became successful entrepreneurs desp...

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Main Authors: Sachs, Carolyn E., 1950- (Author), Terman, Anna Rachel (Author), Kiernan, Nancy Ellen (Author), Brasier, Kathy (Author), Barbercheck, Mary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City [Iowa] : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture - they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. In this book, farm women in the northeastern United States describe how they got into farming and became successful entrepreneurs despite the barriers they encountered in agricultural institutions, farming communities, and even their own families. The authors' feminist agrifood systems theory (FAST) values women's ways of knowing and working in agriculture and has the potential to shift how farmers, agricultural professionals, and anyone else interested in farming think about gender and sustainability, as well as to change how feminist scholars and theorists think about agriculture.--Cover.
Physical Description:1 online resource (214 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9781609384166