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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 402–425.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Kristin Mapel Bloomberg Abstract The decades following the Civil War saw a proliferation of reform ideas about rural life, labor, and family and gender roles. Clara Bewick Colby's “Farmers' Wives” was a particularly robust example of women's late nineteenth-century oratory that used a gendered...
View articletitled, Women and Rural Social Reform in the 1870s and 1880s: Clara Bewick Colby's “Farmers' <span class="search-highlight">Wives</span>”
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 141–142.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Clare Griffiths Mothers, Wives, and Changing Lives: Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century Wales . By B. J. Brown and Sally Baker . Cardiff : University of Wales Press , 2011 . 227 pp., $25.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7083-2334-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 451–464.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Brian Q. Cannon The Best Years of Their Lives? Wives and Mothers on Western Homesteads Years in the Postwar BRIAN Q. CANNON In 1944, Congress rewarded veterans for their wartime service by granting them preferential status in applying for lands being opened to homesteading by the Bureau...
View articletitled, The Best Years of Their Lives? <span class="search-highlight">Wives</span> and Mothers on Western Homesteads in the Postwar Years
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 484–510.
Published: 01 October 2016
... men, understood that land promised economic opportunity and security for themselves and their families. Their efforts to maintain and build upon their estates challenge their image as mere caretakers. Land was a vital concern to women because it helped them to fulfill their responsibilities as wives...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 376–412.
Published: 01 August 2024
... and the number and yield of cows increased, farm wives, daughters, maidservants, and hired milkmaids continued to perform this work. By the end of World War I, however, so many young women had left the countryside that farmers had difficulty hiring enough milkmaids. When milking machinery became available...
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View articletitled, Technology and Gender in Swedish Agriculture: Masculinity and Femininity in Swedish Advertisements for Milking Machines from the 1920s through the 1950s
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 515–517.
Published: 01 October 2004
.... 296 pp., $65.00, hard? back, ISBN 0-7735-1828-2. This is a curious book which gives the general impression of being dated, not only in terms of data collection, but also in terms of the authors' approach. It is ostensibly a study of nearly four hundred French and Quebec farm wives, of whom about half...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 111–112.
Published: 01 January 2000
... in rural America. What makes this argument so tenuous is that while they cite agricultural journal articles encouraging farm wives to support common schools and to limit family size in order to provide quality rather than quantity child rearing, they present no data on the circulation of agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 77–103.
Published: 01 July 2012
... Whites et al. ( Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2004 ), 180 – 81 ; Dolores E. Janiewski , “Making Women into Farmers' Wives: The Native American Experience in the Inland Northwest,” in Women and Farming: Changing Roles, Changing Structures , ed. Wava G. Haney and Jane B...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 638–639.
Published: 01 October 2003
... mythology of the WI as a spontaneous grass-roots movement supported by farm women of all rank. The author argues that the Ontario Department of Agriculture used urbanbased domestic science experts, wives of well-to-do farmers, and small-town elite women to impose middle-class ideals and values on farm women...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 140–141.
Published: 01 July 2012
... agricultural history. Moreover, the book could be even more useful for researchers doing comparative agricultural history. Erland Ma rald Umea University Mothers, Wives, and Changing Lives: Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century Wales. By B. J. Brown and Sally Baker. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011. 227 pp...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 426–443.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Rensselaer, a home economist who directed Cornell University's “Reading Courses for Farmer Wives,” see, Sarah Elbert , “Women and Farming: Changing Structures, Changing Roles,” in Women and Farming: Changing Roles, Changing Structures , ed. Wava G. Haney and Jane B. Knowles ( Boulder...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 328–350.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Market,” Nov. 8, 1938 , p. 5 , Folder 86 37°, MAUC. Workers’ wives also found employment in mine kitchens preparing and delivering meals and cleaning up afterwards. There were few changes associated with kitchen duty over the decades, though by the 1940s few open-air kitchens remained and in the 1960s...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 380–387.
Published: 01 July 2015
... audiences at meetings of agricultural and educational societies. many of those texts were later published in clara Bewick colby s Farmers Wives as well as other women s outlets. indeed, colby is a central figure in Bloomberg s analysis and stands as an exemplar of the socially prominent and well-educated...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Brian Lewis Rural Conflict, Crime and Protest: Herefordshire, 1800-1860 . Timothy Shakesheff . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 114 / Agricultural History their labor in exchange for support or protection, but most of all black men relied upon the labor of their wives...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 112–114.
Published: 01 January 2005
...? mulated property usually did so by getting other slaves and freed people to work for them. Blacks were sometimes able to hire other blacks or secure 114 / Agricultural History their labor in exchange for support or protection, but most of all black men relied upon the labor of their wives and children...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of central and southern Georgia was rooted in the day-to-day fabric of race relations. 10 In rural Georgia during the years between the world wars, the differences between the lives of white and black farm wives were dramatic. Many of the African American women (far more than the white women) were wives...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 465–474.
Published: 01 April 2000
... their lives as they hoped they would be. As early as Feb? ruary 1946, a Farm Journal reader in Missouri suggested that the "daugh? ters, wives, and sisters of farmers should begin to think about taking life a little easier should gradually give up helping so much with the field work! More workers will soon...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 269–270.
Published: 01 April 2007
... that have concentrated on the roles of wives and mothers. There has been a tendency to view these women as worn down by the trials of repeated child-bearing and rearing combined with heavy work in both the home and fields. Hunter's work suggests that many single women, both farmers' daughters and farmers...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 265–266.
Published: 01 April 2008
... and social history to create a detailed and textured portrait of the experiences of plainfolk. The Union Army reached the piney woods late in thewar; even so,Wetherington shows that thewar took a harsh toll on soldiers, widows, wives, and families.He tells of an impoverished countryside and a people divided...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 268–269.
Published: 01 April 2016
... by farm wives. The correspondence between family members continued through the early 1950s, as the surviving Williamson sons farmed in Minnesota, and the daughters raised their families in a variety of locations. The timeline of the letters guides readers through the years of the depression...
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