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Women Bee-ing Neighbours
Barn raisings, quilting “bees” and other reciprocal work take us into the heart of neighbourhood, a defining part of rural life.
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Women and Gender in the Nonpartisan League
More attention needs to be paid to how women in the countryside thought and acted when it came to political parties, candidates, elections, citizenship, and the issues of the day
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Ma Kettle Revisited
Ma Kettle is no longer the face of rural women, but her entertainment genetic legacy endures.
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Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age
I want to write a new kind of book – one that exists in a dynamic and living space, responsive to readers and as instructive in design as it is in content.
Sources for Research
Read, Transcribe and Enjoy Rural Women’s Diaries Online
Read, Transcribe and Enjoy Rural Women’s Diaries Online https://ruraldiaries.lib.uoguelph.ca/ Catharine Anne Wilson Have you ever wanted to read someone’s diary? Now you can. Nothing brings you closer to rural women’s daily life in the past than reading an old diary. The Rural Diary Archive is available online beginning 24 September Read more
Sources in Rural Women's History
Sources in Rural Women’s History, Part V: Indigenous Women’s Sources in Entangled Encounters
I have situated my research at the nexus of interactions between Dakotas and Scandinavian settler colonists. I have witnessed how their seemingly parallel lives—grounded in the land—intertwined and entangled.
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Meeting Miss Kittie: My Friendship with Kittie Wilkins, the Horse Queen of Idaho
Kittie Wilkins was the public face of the Wilkins Horse Company. A woman of superlatives, she was said to be the only woman at the turn of the twentieth century whose sole occupation was as a horse dealer.
Sources in Rural Women's History
Sources in Rural Women’s History, Part IV: These Hands Crafted Fine Things: Material Culture in Rural Women’s History
In honor of the upcoming thirty-fifth anniversary of Joan M. Jensen’s publication of her landmark collection of primary documents,With These Hands: Women Working on the Land (1981), the Rural Women’s Studies Association sponsored a roundtable highlighting innovative uses of primary sources for studying rural women at the 2015 annual meeting of Read more