The Midwest farmer's daughter
Subtitle: in search of an American icon
By: Zachary Michael Jack
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781557536198; 9781612492193; 9781612492186
Subjects: Social life and customs; Farm life in mass media; Public opinion; Women farmers; Popular culture; Farm life; Women in mass media
Description: The Midwest Farmer's Daughter presents the untold history and renewed cultural currency of an American icon at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the United States are woman-owned. It ranges widely from Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres to Laura Ingalls Wilder's commentaries for the Missouri Ruralist; from the critical importance of rural girls and young women to organizations such as the Farm Bureau, 4-H, and FFA to the entrepreneurial role today's female agriculturalists and sustainable farm advocates play in farmers' markets, urban farms, and community-supported agriculture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Pioneering Women; title: Part One; title: The Gingham Girl in the Google Age; title: The Midwest Farmer's Daughter; title: How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?; title: Raising Farmer Jane; title: The Chores of Being a Farm Girl; title: Welk Girls and Daisy Dukes; title: Milkmaids in Manhattan; title: Part Two; title: Little Houses on the Prairie; title: Future Farm Daughters of America; title: Ag-vocating Women; title: Community Supported Agriculture; title: Herland; title: Farmerettes in the Farm City; title: Her Daughter Had a Dynamo.