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Write for the RWSA Blog!
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
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”
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
Call for Presentations and Papers–RWSA 2024
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
Gender and Rural History: A Roundtable
What is the meaning, place and role of gender in both the rural past and the rural historiography? #ruralwomen #twitterstorians #aghist Continue reading
Gramie Sweetser Drove a REO: diaries of an Aroostook County, Maine, farm wife, 1920-1956
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
OK, I’ll Do it Myself
For the past half century, Caroline Schimmel has collected narratives of women overcoming obstacles in the wilderness. Continue reading
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Tagged Agricultural History Society, archives, collections, frontier, wilderness
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Asenath’s Fiery Pen
Instead of retreating to their parlors and bemoaning their plight, women in Territorial Kansas advocated for themselves and their families in the face of loss. Continue reading
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Tagged historical reenactment, history, Kansas, migration, politics, Public History, slavery, violence
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At Mam-maw’s Table
My favorite memories are of Sundays at Mam-maw’s kitchen table Continue reading
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Tagged cookbooks, cooking, foodways, RWSA conference
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Tillie Baldwin: Immigrant Hairdresser Turned Bronco Buster Extraordinaire
Like many white women involved in rodeo, Baldwin both utilized and perpetuated common tropes about authentic western womanhood, while also cheekily resisting them. Continue reading