Tag Archives: female farmers
The Invisible Farmers
The Chief Justice of India’s recent remarks suggesting women have no place in the ongoing farmers’ protests may have gone unnoticed in the 1960s. Today they appear astonishing in their lack of awareness about what the face of the Indian farmer looks like. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, politics
Tagged farm labor, female farmers, India, land ownership, opinion, protests, public policy
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Rising Moon
Wild Mares, chronicles my journey through six lesbian-feminist land projects during the 1970s and ‘80s. Continue reading
Posted in New Books
Tagged farm labor, female farmers, feminism, history, lesbianism, queer studies
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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
Posted in Activism, history
Tagged activism, farm labor, female farmers, feminism, politics
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Fruit of Her Fields: California Women Farmers at the Turn of the Century
By the turn of the 20th century, California women had entered the ranks of specialty crop growers by the hundreds. Continue reading