Farming
Unearthing the Past: Women and Land Ownership in Ireland
Women in Ireland today are farming – but most are not farming land they own. A look back at historical practices helps to explain why.
Food Studies
A Canadian Farmstead’s Baked Beans: Luscious Lesson
We can learn a lot from the way a family bakes its beans . . .
research
Family farming from a rural women’s perspective
University of Lethbridge graduate student Diane McKenzie is combining her rural roots and her research interests with the intention to make an important contribution to the future of agriculture.
Economics
Women’s Cooperative Farming in India
Can farming in all-women’s groups help women outperform individual male-managed farms in productivity and profits, and empower women socially and politically?
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.”
Sources in Rural Women's History
Young Women’s Diaries as Primary Sources for Rural Women’s History
Young Women’s Diaries as Primary Sources for Rural Women’s History Rachel Kleinschmidt My name is Rachel Kleinschmidt and I have been a member of the Rural Women’s Studies Association (RWSA) since 2009. My work has focused on unmarried women in Midwestern agriculture throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Read more
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Women and Gender in the Nonpartisan League
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
Sources in Rural Women's History
Sources in Rural Women’s History, Part V: Indigenous Women’s Sources in Entangled Encounters
I have situated my research at the nexus of interactions between Dakotas and Scandinavian settler colonists. I have witnessed how their seemingly parallel lives—grounded in the land—intertwined and entangled.
Sources in Rural Women's History
Sources in Rural Women’s History, Part II: WITH THESE HANDS They Wrote Diaries: Analyzing the Keeping and Daily Entries of Farm Women’s Diaries
Scholars have found new ways to read “between the lines” of women’s diaries.