.... 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...

...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...

...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...

... of reminding us of this and placing these recent events in historical context. Frederick Knight Morehouse College 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...

...Susan Rugh Working the Land: The Stories of Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West . By Sandra K. Schackel . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2011 . 200 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-1780-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

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

...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...

...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...