Prairie YWCAs were inclined to support the more conservative view of Christian salvation… However, the reality of supporting the needs of so many required pragmatic policies of action that later served as a template for larger urban counterparts after the onset of the Great Depression.
The quilting bee continued to be a mainstay in many Canadian communities during WWI.
To truly put history to work . . . it should also involve engaging and collaborating with change makers outside of the academy and on the ground.
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
The most important issue is the victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking.
Essays based on superb papers presented at the 2012 Rural Women’s Studies Association conference, which span time and place, appear along with an introduction in the Summer 2015 issue of Agricultural History.
We have all heard people say they wish they could “turn their passion into a job”. Well that is just what Marji Guyler-Alaniz did.
Olive “Polly” Matthews Stone (1897-1977) was a sociologist and advocate for social welfare, civil rights, and interracial relations in the South. Her life and career—with a focus on radical politics and social justice in rural societies, particularly during the 1930s—have largely been left unexplored