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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 465–474.
Published: 01 April 2000
...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...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 77–103.
Published: 01 July 2012
.... 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...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 712–714.
Published: 01 July 2000
...Sally G. McMillen North Carolina Women: Making History . Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 712 / Agricultural History power and resonance to the socialist movement in Oklahoma, however, was the connection of party...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 700–701.
Published: 01 July 2000
...Stephanie Carpenter Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940 . Rebecca Sharpless . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Book Reviews Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 19001940. By Rebecca Sharpless. Chapel Hill...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 275–276.
Published: 01 April 2011
...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...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 280–281.
Published: 01 April 2011
...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...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 471–474.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Katherine Jellison jellison@ohio.edu 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...
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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...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 426–443.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Grey Osterud Abstract This essay explores what rural women called “independence” when they were growing up in New York State during the early twentieth century. They wanted to get an education and a job, but most saw nothing wrong with the prospect of farming except for the poverty it often...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 739–741.
Published: 01 October 2002
...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...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 731–733.
Published: 01 October 2002
...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...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (3): 612–614.
Published: 01 July 2002
...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...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 506–508.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Sally G. McMillen All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919–1941 . Melissa Walker . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 506 / Agricultural History Those few readers whose primary motivation for reading this work is their interest in recent Costa...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 365–367.
Published: 01 April 2019
... normally wary students. This combination of vibrant prose and comprehensive interdisciplinary research makes Fagan s work an essential read for any historian exploring the role that fish played in the human past. Jordan Coulombe University of New Hampshire Women in Agriculture: Professionalizing Rural Life...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 July 2019
...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...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 617–618.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Tina Stewart Brakebill 2015 Book Reviews Dolan s ultimate success is to root today s food-based dissent in a fertile historical past (101). Daegan Miller University of Wisconsin Madison Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut. By Anthony V. Riccio. Albany: State...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 255–257.
Published: 01 April 2008
... held religious, social, and political positions thatbecame more radical as she became more discontent. A radical abolitionist, she opposed the Civil War, believing that saving the Union would simply save the flawed Constitution. Slowly, she became a supporter of women's rights,demanding thatwomen...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 538–540.
Published: 01 October 2008
...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...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 128–129.
Published: 01 January 2009
...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...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 259–260.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Amanda Taylor-Montoya Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives . Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews largelypublishedsources,and thereare no astonishing"gotcha!"moments. Itisa re-tellingr...