Athletics
Charreadas as Complex Celebrations of Heritage and Identity for Mexican American Woman
Charreada celebrates Mexican culture and heritage, but women encounter limitations.
New Books
Uncovering Poverty and Resilience in the Great Flyover
In Heartland, Smarsh eloquently unpacks the harsh realities of the working poor in places that are simultaneously celebrated as the nation’s “heartland” and mocked as being part of the “great flyover.”
Uncategorized
Not Only a Farmer’s Wife: Searching for Rural Women
Changing perceptions of rural women require different research strategies.
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Crappy History
“[T]he modern nation-state is founded on s*&t, which seems only appropriate given the damage that nationalism has done to people and planet.”
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Refugee from the Plantation South: Marie Wilson’s Flight from Privilege to Notoriety
Marie Wilson rejected the rigid world of the plantation and embraced an unorthodox and worldly lifestyle.
Activism
How Civic Responsibility, Nativism, and World War I Gave Women in the Midwest the Right to Vote
Civic responsibility combined with wartime nativist hysteria to give midwestern women the right to vote.
education
Farm Institutes and Rural Women: The Case of Rural New York State
Targeting farm women was deemed a best practice for farmer’s institutes.
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Farm Women in Crisis Times: Rethinking Women’s Roles in the 1980s
The Farm Crisis of the 1980s was a time of upheaval in American agriculture, second only to the long depression of 1920-1940. The crisis affected many different facets of farm life, including farm women’s roles.
Sexuality
TERF WARS – ARE WE REPEATING FEMINIST HISTORIES?
Even before the invention of social media networks, radical and lesbian feminists practiced exclusion within communities designed for “womyn-born women.”
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The Hired Girl in Norwegian America
As a hired girl, I continued a long work tradition in Norwegian America that also hearkened back to Norway.