More than a farmer's wife
Subtitle: voices of American farm women, 1910-1960
By: Amy Mattson Lauters.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780826218520
Subjects: Women farmers -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Women in agriculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Voices of American farm women, 1910-1960
Description: "Examining how women were presented in farming and mainstream magazines over fifty years and interviewing more than 180 women who lived on farms, Lauters reveals that, rather than being victims of patriarchy, most farm women were astute businesswomen, working as partners with their husbands and fundamental to the farming industry"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A sense of place: farm women in history and in theory; title: Farming and the mass media; title: Farm women: "the typification of the thing America needs"; title: A message to farm women: consider "how unique you are"; title: For farm women: "the only class of workers who are absolutely without representation"; title: Passing it on; title: Lives in transition.