A group of young women studying agriculture in Norway recently wrote a song supporting small family farms. Their music video, “Norway Needs a Farmer” has gone viral. In today’s “RWSA Wednesday” post, read about the video and the historical and political context for this hit song.
By Linda M. Ambrose Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada la******@********an.ca For an author, after years of research and writing, nothing compares to the feeling of holding that new book in your hands for the first time. Just a few weeks ago my latest book, A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Read more
By Ann Reed, University of North Dakota You know that notion about never seeing tourist sites in your town until an out-of-town guest visits and asks, “What is there to do around here?” Part of my reason for attending the RWSA conference was structurally analogous to that. Several individuals at Read more
By Joan Jensen, Professor Emerita, New Mexico State University It was the spring of 1977, and I was where I wanted to be. I was at a Land Grant University, teaching women’s history, and in my head a book on rural women was taking form. I had dropped out of Read more
By Cynthia Prescott, Associate Professor of History, University of North Dakota I recently had the opportunity to contribute to an episode of TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are? The show’s researchers reached out to me as an expert to guide celebrity Tony Goldwyn’s research on his maternal ancestry. I Read more
Welcome to Rural Women’s Studies, a new weekly blog hosted by the Rural Women’s Studies Association. This blog has been created as a way to increase the visibility of rural women’s studies research and activism around the world. RWSA members and others who research or work with women in rural Read more