Opening windows onto hidden lives
Subtitle: women, country life, and early rural sociological research
By: Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson
Contributors: Larson, Olaf F.
Series: Rural studies
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780271037288
Description: "Examines the embeddedness of rural and farm women's lives in rural sociological research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life (1919-1953). Explores how early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hidden windows, hidden lives; title: Opening hidden windows; title: "Agriculture is not the whole of country life"; title: Women and rural society; title: Finding women in the division's research; title: The test of time; title: Selected bibliography; title: Citations from sociology in government : the Galpin-Taylor years in the the work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953; title: Reprints of selected publications; title: Woman's work on the farm; title: The woman on the farm; title: Recommendations of The Committee; title: Farm life studies and their relation to home economics work (1920) / Charles J. Galpin; title: The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished report (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.