.... 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 Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Footnotes 1 R. Douglas Hurt , Agricultural Technology in the Twentieth Century (Manhattan, Kan.: Sunflower University Press, 1991 ), 45 -52 Deborah Fink , Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers...

...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...

...Katherine Jellison [email protected] In a New Light: Histories of Women and Energy . Edited by Abigail Harrison Moore and R. W. Sandwell . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2021 . 216 pp., $37.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780228006190 . Copyright © 2022...

...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...

...Chrissy Lutz; Dawn Herd-Clark Abstract Social interactions among African American women in Georgia’s Black Belt during the years between the world wars helped those women to improve their lives. Fort Valley State College and the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture...

...Rebecca Sharpless Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History . Kimberly D. Schmidt , Diane Zimmerman Umble and Steven D. Reschly . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 739 simply too general and vague. For example, Martha Rees's article...

...Wendy Mitchinson And on That Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900–1970 . Monda Halpern . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 731 quickly recovered from about 8,000 in 1919 to a peak of 25,000 by 1921. Unfortunately, the AWIU went...

...Kerry Badgley The Rise of Agrarian Democracy: The United Farmers and Farm Women of Alberta, 1909–1921 . Bradford James Rennie . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 612 / Agricultural History where Else, which asserts that underdevelopment may be remedied by the allocation...

...Victoria Seta Cosby [email protected] Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario . By Jodey Nurse . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2022 . 360 pp. $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780228009153. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...

...Kelly Kennington An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade . By Alexandra J. Finley . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . 200 pp., $22.95 , paperback, ISBN 9781469661353. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 710...

...Adam Sundberg; Sara Brooks Sundberg Abstract While it is well known that a widespread minority of white women owned agricultural land in the early South, scholars rarely interpret them as landowners actively involved in acquiring or managing their lands. This paper investigates women as landholders...

...Cynthia Haller More Than a Farmer's Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910–1960 . By Amy Mattson Lauters . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2009 . 208 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8262-1852-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book Reviews...

...Melissa Walker A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America . By Janet Galligani Casey . New York : Oxford University Press , 2009 . 264 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-533895-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History...

...Renee M. Laegreid Home Lands: How Women Made the West . By Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken . Los Angeles : Autry Center of the American West , 2010 . 184 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-520-26219-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

...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...

...Mary E. Grigsby Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives: Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research . By Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson , 2010 . State College : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . 240 pp., $64.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-271-03728-8...

...Gene Kritsky Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market . By Tammy Horn . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2012 . 376 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-3435-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

...Katherine Jellison Putting the Barn Before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York . By Grey Osterud . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2012 . 296 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8014-7810-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...