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Join Us for Our August Virtual Craft Hour!

Posted on August 15, 2024 by Jennifer Helton

Come chat with RWSA members at our August craft hour! Bring your crafting projects, end-of-summer stories, and plans for the school year. Beginners and non-crafters welcome!

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Explore the JANAL Archive!

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Jennifer Helton

 The Kerala Museum, a vibrant cultural space in Kochi, located on the south-west coast of India, announces its new digital programme on Kerala history.  Venturing outside the physical limits of the Museum, JANAL, meaning window in Malayalam, is a programme … Continue reading →

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A Canadian Farmstead’s Baked Beans: Luscious Lesson

Posted on August 1, 2024 by admin

We can learn a lot from the way a family bakes its beans . . .
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Write for the RWSA Blog!

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Jennifer Helton

We are always looking for submissions to our blog. We accept everything from book excerpts to informal reflections about research, activism, and rural life. Our blog posts typically range from 200 to 2,000 words in length and photos or other … Continue reading →

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RWSA Blog

Posted on February 19, 2024 by admin

The purpose of the RWSA blog is to improve the visibility of rural women’s studies research and activism around the world.

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Meet the Female “Drummer”     

Posted on November 8, 2023 by ccprescott

Gary Gillman, Beer Et Seq Toronto, Ontario, Canada                  `      In North America in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, manufacturing and wholesaling firms relied on armies of traveling sales personnel to interest buyers in their product line. Their customers were typically … Continue reading →

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Call for Presentations and Papers–RWSA 2024

Posted on October 12, 2022 by ccprescott

Gendered Advocacy and Activism, Shaping Institutions and Communities  Rural Women’s Studies Association Triennial Conference Hosted by Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA May 15-19, 2024 Recent challenges to civil rights in various locations internationally bring to mind equity in rural … Continue reading →

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Gender and Rural History: A Roundtable

Posted on January 5, 2022 by ccprescott

What is the meaning, place and role of gender in both the rural past and the rural historiography? #ruralwomen #twitterstorians #aghist Continue reading →

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Gramie Sweetser Drove a REO: diaries of an Aroostook County, Maine, farm wife, 1920-1956

Posted on June 30, 2021 by ccprescott

I physically experience farm life in the context of the research I conduct, and I often reflect on the lives of women in this same place when it was in its ascendancy. Continue reading →

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OK, I’ll Do it Myself

Posted on December 9, 2020 by ccprescott

For the past half century, Caroline Schimmel has collected narratives of women overcoming obstacles in the wilderness. Continue reading →

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