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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. Continue reading
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Tagged family, farm labor, feminism, history, primary sources
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Rising Moon
Wild Mares, chronicles my journey through six lesbian-feminist land projects during the 1970s and ‘80s. Continue reading
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Tagged farm labor, female farmers, feminism, history, lesbianism, queer studies
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Berks Panels of Interest, Part IV
Berks 2017 panels related to rural women Continue reading
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Tagged African diaspora, conferences, farm labor, history, land ownership, slavery
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Berks Panels of Interest, Part II
Highlighting 2017 Berks panels related to rural women Continue reading
The Langham Place Feminists and Women Farmers/Farming for Women
The Langham Place group thus challenged dominant conceptualisations of respectable femininity for rural womenthroughout the second half of the nineteenth-century Continue reading
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Rural Women and their Things: Thoughts on the 2015 Artifacts in Agraria Symposium
Material cultural studies are necessary when telling the story of rural women’s lives. Continue reading
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Sources in Rural Women’s History, Part IV: These Hands Crafted Fine Things: Material Culture in Rural Women’s History
In honor of the upcoming thirty-fifth anniversary of Joan M. Jensen’s publication of her landmark collection of primary documents,With These Hands: Women Working on the Land (1981), the Rural Women’s Studies Association sponsored a roundtable highlighting innovative uses of primary … Continue reading
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Tagged domestic work, farm labor, material culture, primary sources
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New Issue of AGRICULTURAL HISTORY Highlights Rural Women’s Studies
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. Continue reading
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Tagged activism, family, farm labor, girlhood, history, migration, RWSA, RWSA conference, slavery, social reform
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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. Continue reading
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Tagged family farms, farm labor, history, primary sources
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FarmHer – Documenting Women in Agriculture Through Photography
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. Continue reading