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.... This paper reviews the commission's findings and recommendations to argue that its gender assumptions had specific outcomes for rural women. On the one hand, they influenced the gendered structure of the nationalized farm extension program established in 1914. On the other, they provoked a reaction...

...Stephanie A. Carpenter "Women Who Work in the Field": The Changing Farm Role of Farm and Nonfarm Women on the STEPHANIE A. CARPENTER American agriculture has seen tremendous change and growth in the twen? tieth century. And, while most visible change is related to technology, pro? duction...

...Diane Menghetti Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Father’s Right-Hand Man: Women on Australia’s Family Farms in the Age of Federation, 1880s–1920s . Kathryn M. Hunter . 2007 Book Reviews introduction by agricultural historian David Vaught. He compresses into six pages...

...Ginette Aley Abstract Three quarters of a century ago, writer Bess Streeter Aldrich sought to use her fiction to overturn a woefully inadequate portrayal of midwesterners and midwestern life; recent historians of rural midwestern women have been similarly motivated. Yet they have faced daunting...

...Catharine Anne Wilson Organizing Rural Women: The Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario, 1897-1919 . Margaret C. Kechnie . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 638 / Agricultural History Ecology of the Red River in 1806" looks at the explorer Peter Custis's contributions...

...Larry R. Peterson Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870–1930 . Barbara Handy-Marchello . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Book Reviews Women of thNe orthernPlains:Genderand Settlemenotn theHomestead Frontier1, 870-1930...

...Sandra Schackel African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000 . Quintard Taylor Shirley Ann Wilson Moore . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000. Edited by Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson...

...Sally McMillen Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South . Lu Ann Jones . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 121 South Side Project, a privately promoted Carey Act project which succeeded magnificently, and the Minidoka project which succeeded...

...Kristalyn Shefveland Book Reviews Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690 1792. By Susan Sleeper-Smith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 376 pp., $40.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-4969-4058-7. Susan Sleeper-Smith s voluminous...

...Daniel J. Simone The Women of Country Music: A Reader . Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 136 / Agricultural History the vital and indispensable role that the federal government plays in the eco? nomic viability of the West's...

...Peta Tancred Feminist Politics on the Farm: Rural Catholic Women in Southern Quebec and Southwestern France . Naomi Black and Gail Cuthbert Brandt . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 515 Depending upon the size, location, and product of the farm...

...Patricia S. Kruppa Rural Women Workers in 19th Century England: Gender, Work, and Wages . Nicola Verdon . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews Rural Women Workers in 19th Century England: Gender, Work, and Wages. By Nicola Verdon. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell...

...Elna C. Green Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives . Martha H. Swain , Elizabeth Anne Payne and Marjorie Julian Spruill . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 238 / Agricultural History These are, however, only minor quibbles about an important...

...David Schoenbrun Taking Land, Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840-1940 . Glenda Riley . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 492 / Agricultural History consumed and can be in so many different ways including as noodles, alcohol, crackers...

...Valerie Grim Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century . Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 AgriculturHalistory Fall atWadi Al-Hasa. The use of theGIS-based Universal Soil Loss Equation has great...

...Jane M. Pederson Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925 . Joan M. Jensen . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 AgriculturHalistory Winter Calling thisPlace Home: Women on thWe isconsin Frontier1, 850-1925. By JoanM. Jensen. St. Paul: Minnesota...

...Amanda Taylor-Montoya © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives . Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw . 2009 BookReviews largelypublishedsources,and thereare no astonishing"gotcha!"moments. Itisa re-tellingr...

... somepoint.Surprisingltyhecoverage is internationali,ncludingseveral women from the Rothamsted 414 2009 Book Reviews ExperimenSttationinBritaint,wofromPortugala,ndone eachfromCanada andtheNetherlandTs.he onlyomissionI can thinkofisWinifredBrenchly, thefirstwomanat Rothamstedw, hois mentionedherea fewtimesbutnot included...

...GREY OSTERUD Abstract Mary Neth’s 1995 book, Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940, made a major contribution to the analysis of the connections between gender and the political economy that shaped farm women’s lives and fueled...

...Michelle Martindale Women in Agriculture: Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe, 1880–1965 . Edited by Linda M. Ambrose and Joan M. Jensen . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2017 . 272 pp., $65.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60398-472-2. © 2019 Agricultural...